Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope: Education forms the...

Alexander Pope: Education forms the...

Education forms the common mind.
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.


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Alexander Pope: For virtue's self...

Alexander Pope: For virtue's self...

For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

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Alexander Pope: Ev'n copious Dryden...

Alexander Pope: Ev'n copious Dryden...

Ev'n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot,
The last and greatest art, the art to blot.


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Alexander Pope: Formed by thy...

Alexander Pope: Formed by thy...

Formed by thy converse happily to steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.


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Alexander Pope: But Satan now...

Alexander Pope: But Satan now...

But Satan now is wiser than of yore,
And tempts by making rich, not making poor.


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Alexander Pope: Eternal smiles his...

Alexander Pope: Eternal smiles his...

Eternal smiles his emptiness betray,
As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.


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Alexander Pope: Grant but as...

Alexander Pope: Grant but as...

Grant but as many sorts of mind as moss.

Source: Moral Essays, Epistle I. 18
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Alexander Pope: Fair tresses man's...

Alexander Pope: Fair tresses man's...

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.


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Alexander Pope: Good God! how...

Alexander Pope: Good God! how...

Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and...

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Alexander Pope: By foreign hands...

Alexander Pope: By foreign hands...

By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed,
By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed,
By foreign hands thy...

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Alexander Pope: Eye Nature's walks,...

Alexander Pope: Eye Nature's walks,...

Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,
And catch the manners living as they rise;
Laugh where we must, be...

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Alexander Pope: Health consists with...

Alexander Pope: Health consists with...

Health consists with temperance alone.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Alexander Pope: For Forms of...

Alexander Pope: For Forms of...

For Forms of Government let fools contest;
Whate'er is best administer'd is best.


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Alexander Pope: How here he...

Alexander Pope: How here he...

How here he sipped, how there he plundered snug,
And sucked all o'er, like an industrious...

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Alexander Pope: Conceit is to...

Alexander Pope: Conceit is to...

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it not only is useless, but it impairs what it would...

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Alexander Pope: Heaven from all...

Alexander Pope: Heaven from all...

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Alexander Pope: Here am I,...

Alexander Pope: Here am I,...

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

Source: Said to George Lyttleton, 15...

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Alexander Pope: Happy the man...

Alexander Pope: Happy the man...

Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air,
In his own...

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Alexander Pope: If to her...

Alexander Pope: If to her...

If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.


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Alexander Pope: Curst be the...

Alexander Pope: Curst be the...

Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow,
That tends to make one worthy man my foe.


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