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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
Alexander Pope
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
For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
Alexander Pope
Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
Alexander Pope
Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
Alexander Pope
Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
Alexander Pope
The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
Alexander Pope
The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
Alexander Pope
The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
Alexander Pope
A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Alexander Pope
So perish all who do the like again.
Alexander Pope
Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
Alexander Pope
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
Alexander Pope
Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
Alexander Pope
Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
Alexander Pope
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Alexander Pope
Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
Alexander Pope
Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
Alexander Pope
Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
Alexander Pope
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
Alexander Pope
