Alexander Pope Quotes - Page 14

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• The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

  Alexander Pope

  Nice, Differences, Vices

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire”, p.87

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• The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

  Alexander Pope

  Success, Race, Vaunt

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.276

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• Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.

  Alexander Pope

  Reality, Moments, Ability

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• Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

  Alexander Pope

  War, Fighting, Might

  Homer, Alexander Pope, Gilbert Wakefield (1796). “The Iliad of Homer: Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. A new edition, with additional notes, critical and illustrative, by Gilbert Wakefield, B.A. ...”, p.259

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• What bosom beast not in his country's cause?

  Alexander Pope

  Country, Military, Causes

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• Interspersed in lawn and opening glades,
  Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.

  Alexander Pope

  Tree, Shade, Arise

  Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.151

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• Ladies, like variegated tulips, show
  'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

  Alexander Pope

  Women, Half, Charm

  Alexander Pope (1849). “Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People”, p.217

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• No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.

  Alexander Pope

  Air, Wings, Larks

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Memoirs of the life and writings of Pope. Recommendatory poems. A discourse on pastoral poetry. Pastorals. Messiah. Windsor forest. Odes. Two chorus's to the tragedy of Brutus. The dying Christian to his soul. An essay on criticism. The rape of the lock. Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady. Prologue to Mr. Addison's tragedy of Cato. Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore”, p.94

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• Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

  Alexander Pope

  Change, Fall, Clouds

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.12

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• Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

  Alexander Pope

  Giving, Tree, Liberty

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.40

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• For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

  Alexander Pope

  Sage, Guests, Welcome

  'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 2, Satire 2 (1734) l. 159 ('speed the parting guest' in Pope's translation of The Odyssey (1725-6) bk. 15, l. 84)

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• Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Strong, Men, Growth

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.205

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• And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.

  Alexander Pope

  Midnight, Woe, Bears

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.214

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• Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.

  Alexander Pope

  Poor, Stewards, Stores

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• Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Men, Psychology

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 1 (1733) See Charron 1

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• Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.

  Alexander Pope

  Medicine, Fields, Beast

  Alexander Pope (1763). “An essay on man: By Alexander Pope, Esq. Enlarged and improved by the author. Together with his MS. additions and variations as in the last edition of his works. With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester”, p.70

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• And write about it, Goddess, and about it!

  Alexander Pope

  Writing, Goddess

  'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 4, l. 251

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• Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

  Alexander Pope

  Ambition, Angel, Firsts

  'Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady' (1717) l. 13

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• Some to conceit alone their taste confine,
  And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line;
  Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit;
  One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

  Alexander Pope

  Lines, Taste, Chaos

  Alexander Pope (1711). “An Essay on Criticism”, p.18

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• Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.

  Alexander Pope

  Confused, Order, Confusion

  'Windsor Forest' (1711) l. 11

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• Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try,
  And ring suspected vessels ere they buy;
  But wives, a random choice, untried they take;
  They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake;
  Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away,
  And all the woman glares in open day.

  Alexander Pope

  Dream, Horse, Men

  Alexander Pope (1836). “Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.87

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• Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.

  Alexander Pope

  Coins, Dear, Grows

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.278

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• The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

  Alexander Pope

  Giving, World, Fool

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.230

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• O happiness! our being's end and aim!
  Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name:
  That something still which prompts the eternal sigh,
  For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Gratitude, Appreciation

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 4 (1734) l. 1

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• There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.

  Alexander Pope

  Friendship, Virtue

  "The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope".

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