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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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
The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
Alexander Pope
Cavil you may, but never criticise.
Alexander Pope
Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
Alexander Pope
Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
Alexander Pope
Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
Alexander Pope
What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
Alexander Pope
What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
Alexander Pope
Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
Alexander Pope
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
Alexander Pope
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
Alexander Pope
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Alexander Pope
But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
Alexander Pope
All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
Alexander Pope
Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
Alexander Pope
There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
Alexander Pope
Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
Alexander Pope
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
Alexander Pope
Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
Alexander Pope
Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
Alexander Pope
And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
Alexander Pope
