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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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 City
Pope the Poet
Alexander I Pope
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Alexander Pope
Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Alexander Pope
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
Alexander Pope
Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
Alexander Pope
We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
Alexander Pope
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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
E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
Alexander Pope
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
Alexander Pope
Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
Alexander Pope
A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
Alexander Pope
Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
Alexander Pope
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope
The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
Alexander Pope
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Alexander Pope
Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
Alexander Pope
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
Alexander Pope
Most women have no characters at all.
Alexander Pope
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
Alexander Pope
Expression is the dress of thought.
Alexander Pope
