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Passions are the gales of life.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
Alexander Pope
Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
Alexander Pope
An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
Alexander Pope
All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
Alexander Pope
All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
Alexander Pope
Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
Alexander Pope
Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
Alexander Pope
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
Alexander Pope
Every professional was once an amateur.
Alexander Pope
Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
Alexander Pope
Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
Alexander Pope
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
Alexander Pope
But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
Alexander Pope
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
Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
Alexander Pope
