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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Alexander I Pope
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More quotes by Alexander Pope
Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
Alexander Pope
But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
Alexander Pope
Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
Alexander Pope
In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
Alexander Pope
Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
Alexander Pope
Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
Alexander Pope
The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
Alexander Pope
Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
Alexander Pope
Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
Alexander Pope
And more than echoes talk along the walls.
Alexander Pope
An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
Alexander Pope
Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
Alexander Pope
Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
Alexander Pope
The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
Alexander Pope
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
Alexander Pope
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
Alexander Pope
A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
Alexander Pope
While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
Alexander Pope
