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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  • We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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  • What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, I the soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, I is virtue's prize.
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  • What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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  • What thin partitions sense from thought divide!
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  • What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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  • When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
    Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
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  • When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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  • Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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  • Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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  • Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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  • Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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  • Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
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  • Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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  • Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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  • You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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