Alexander Pope Quotes

Alexander Pope Biography
Type: Poet
Nationality: English
Born: May 21, 1688
Died: May 30, 1744




A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Alexander Pope

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Alexander Pope

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander Pope

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Alexander Pope

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope