Alexander Pope Quotes - Page 8

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• The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

  Alexander Pope

  Kings, Government, Divine

  'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 4, l. 187

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• Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Bears, Merit

  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.369

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• The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

  Alexander Pope

  Law, Judging, May

  The Rape of the Lock canto 3, l. 21 (1714)

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• Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

  Alexander Pope

  Design, Sublime, Genius

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• Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

  Alexander Pope

  Fear, Butterfly, Atheism

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• I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Christian, Adversity

  "Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1727)

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• Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Honor, Inventor

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• Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

  Alexander Pope

  Writing, Men, Names

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. 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.105

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• Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Giving, Society

  Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• And make each day a critic on the last.

  Alexander Pope

  Each Day, Lasts, Critics

  Alexander Pope (1778). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and Commentators”, p.79

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• Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Drinking, Wine, Alcohol

  Imitations of Horace bk. 2, Satire 1, l. 127 (1734)

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• Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.

  Alexander Pope

  Blow, Zephyr, Strain

  Alexander Pope (1717). “Works of Mister Alexander Pope”, p.95

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• Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.

  Alexander Pope

  Loss, Men, Common Sense

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1812). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: With a Selection of Explanatory Notes”, p.227

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• Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
  You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill:
  Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age
  Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Play, Age

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Colley Cibber (1804). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with his last corrections, additions and improvements”, p.105

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• Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Honesty, Women

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.124

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• Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

  Alexander Pope

  Friendship, Philosophy, Philosopher

  An Essay on Man Epistle 4, l. 390 (1734)

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• If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Wise, Men

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 2 (1733) l. 1.

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• A perfect woman's but a softer man.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Perfect, Perfect Woman

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• Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Lying, Character

  Alexander Pope (1823). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to which is Added, The Universal Prayer, with Other Poems”, p.33

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• I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: 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.397

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• Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Cheat, Frailty

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.181

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• Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.

  Alexander Pope

  Littles, Gale, Driving

  Alexander Pope (1776). “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.75

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• Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

  Alexander Pope

  Grace, Argument, Instruction

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.192

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• An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

  Alexander Pope

  Atheist, Hypocrite, Mad

  Alexander Pope, Owen Ruffhead (1807). “Poetry and letters-1807”, p.109

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• I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

  Alexander Pope

  Believe, Forgiving, Vices

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.4

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