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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
Alexander Pope
Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
Alexander Pope
Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
Alexander Pope
I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
Alexander Pope
The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
Alexander Pope
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
Alexander Pope
Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
Alexander Pope
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
Alexander Pope
The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
Alexander Pope
The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
Alexander Pope
As with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
Alexander Pope
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
Alexander Pope
Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
Alexander Pope
O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
Alexander Pope
