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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
Alexander Pope
Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
Alexander Pope
Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
Alexander Pope
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Alexander Pope
I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
Alexander Pope
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
Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
Alexander Pope
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
Alexander Pope
Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
Alexander Pope
The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
Alexander Pope
Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
Alexander Pope
Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
Alexander Pope
A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
Alexander Pope
Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
Alexander Pope
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Alexander Pope
Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
Alexander Pope
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
Alexander Pope