Quotes by Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

English poet

Lived from: 1688 - 1744

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 21 may 1688 Died: 30 may 1744

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  • The wonder we often express at our neighbours keeping dull company, would lessen if we reflected that most people seek companions less to be talked to, than to talk.
    Thoughts (1754)
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  • The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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  • There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.''
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  • They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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  • Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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  • Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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  • To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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  • To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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  • To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a rasor.
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  • To err is human, to forgive is divine.
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  • To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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  • True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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  • True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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  • True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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  • True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
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  • Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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  • Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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  • Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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  • Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
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  • We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
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