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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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 vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
Alexander Pope
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Alexander Pope
Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
Alexander Pope
When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
Alexander Pope
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
Alexander Pope
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Alexander Pope
Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
Alexander Pope
And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
Alexander Pope
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander Pope
Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
Alexander Pope
Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
Alexander Pope
Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
Alexander Pope
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
Alexander Pope
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
Alexander Pope
Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
Alexander Pope
Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
Alexander Pope
Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
Alexander Pope
To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
Alexander Pope
