Alexander Pope Quotes - Page 17

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• The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

  Alexander Pope

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

  Alexander Pope (2008). “An Essay on Man: Moral Essays and Satires: Easyread Large Edition”, p.160, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

  Alexander Pope

  Light, Sea, Sky

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.35

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• Dogs, ye have had your day!

  Alexander Pope

  Dog, Time, Calendars

  Homerus, Alexander Pope (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”

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• For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

  Alexander Pope

  Reading, Eye, Stuff

  Alexander Pope (1728). “The Dunciad”, p.9

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• Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

  Alexander Pope

  Home, Charity, Fool

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1859). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with a life”, p.212

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• The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

  Alexander Pope

  Lying, Dull, Cunning

  Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks”, p.254

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• Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

  Alexander Pope

  Friendship, Dear Friend, Absent

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.156

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• Most women have no characters at all.

  Alexander Pope

  Women, Anger, Character

  1735 Epistles to Several Persons,'To a Lady', l.2.

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• I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

  Alexander Pope

  Giving, Charity, Littles

  "The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Imitations of Horace".

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• The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

  Alexander Pope

  Running, Mad, Insanity

  'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 1, Epistle 6 (1738) l. 27

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

  Alexander Pope

  Birthday, Graduation, Education

  Epistles to Several Persons "To Lord Cobham" l. 101 (1734)

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• Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!

  Alexander Pope

  Nurse, Solitude

  Alexander Pope (1806). “The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles”, p.295

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• Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

  Alexander Pope

  Religion, Gardening, Genius

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Burlington' (1731) l. 57

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• When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

  Alexander Pope

  Giving, Alive, Charity

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.159

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• When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

  Alexander Pope

  Change, Past, Path

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• Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Proud, Be Proud

  'Imitations of Horace' Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue 2, l. 208

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• Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Laughter, Men

  'Ode on Solitude' (written c.1700, when aged about twelve)

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• Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

  Alexander Pope

  Lying, Unseen, Obscurity

  'Ode on Solitude' (written c.1700)

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• In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

  Alexander Pope

  Future, Tyrants, Hell

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker, Whitwell Elwin, William John Courthope (1871). “The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin”, p.313

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• But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.

  Alexander Pope

  Dog, Thinking, Sky

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 111

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• Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Jewels, Grace

  An Essay on Criticism l. 297 (1711)

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• Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?

  Alexander Pope

  Thinking, Sky, Dies

  'Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady' (1717) l. 9

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• Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.

  Alexander Pope

  Son, Feet, Paper

  1742 The Dunciad, bk.4, l.127-30.

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• Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.

  Alexander Pope

  Pants, Glory, Breaths

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq: in six volumes complete : with his last corrections, additions, and improvements : together with all his notes, as they were delivered to the editor a little before his death : printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton”, p.274

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• And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade,
  Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

  Alexander Pope

  Light, Criticism, Shade

  Alexander Pope (1789). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: ...”, p.198

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