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Order is heaven's first law.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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More quotes by Alexander Pope
Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
Alexander Pope
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
Alexander Pope
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Alexander Pope
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
Alexander Pope
There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
Alexander Pope
Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
Alexander Pope
When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
Alexander Pope
There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
Alexander Pope
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope
One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope
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
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Alexander Pope
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
Alexander Pope
Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
Alexander Pope
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
Alexander Pope
Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.
Alexander Pope
No more was seen the human form divine.
Alexander Pope
Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
Alexander Pope
And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Alexander Pope
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
Alexander Pope
