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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
Alexander Pope
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
Alexander Pope
What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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
Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
Alexander Pope
Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
Alexander Pope
Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
Alexander Pope
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
Alexander Pope
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
Alexander Pope
Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
Alexander Pope
With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
Alexander Pope
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
Alexander Pope
Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
Alexander Pope
Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
Alexander Pope
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Alexander Pope
Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
Alexander Pope
Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
Alexander Pope
The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
Alexander Pope
For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
Alexander Pope
True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
Alexander Pope
