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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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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
Alexander Pope
Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
Alexander Pope
To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
Alexander Pope
And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
Alexander Pope
Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
Alexander Pope
Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
Alexander Pope
The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
Alexander Pope
Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
Alexander Pope
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
Alexander Pope
We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
Alexander Pope
But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
Alexander Pope
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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
From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
Alexander Pope
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
Alexander Pope
Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
Alexander Pope
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
Alexander Pope
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
