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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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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.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope
A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
Alexander Pope
Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
Alexander Pope
A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
Alexander Pope
Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
Alexander Pope
Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
Alexander Pope
The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
Alexander Pope
That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
Alexander Pope
Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
Alexander Pope
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
Alexander Pope
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
Alexander Pope
For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
Alexander Pope
Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
Alexander Pope
So perish all who do the like again.
Alexander Pope
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
Alexander Pope
Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
Alexander Pope
