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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
It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
Alexander Pope
Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
Alexander Pope
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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
Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
Alexander Pope
And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
Alexander Pope
For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
Alexander Pope
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
Alexander Pope
Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
Alexander Pope
So perish all who do the like again.
Alexander Pope
It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
Alexander Pope
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope
chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
Alexander Pope
This long disease, my life.
Alexander Pope
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
Alexander Pope
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
Alexander Pope
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
Alexander Pope
For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
Alexander Pope
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Alexander Pope
Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
Alexander Pope
