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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
Alexander Pope
To err is human to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope
Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
Alexander Pope
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
Alexander Pope
What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
Alexander Pope
At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
Alexander Pope
Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
Alexander Pope
A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
Alexander Pope
Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Alexander Pope
Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
Alexander Pope
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
Alexander Pope
Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
Alexander Pope
Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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
Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
Alexander Pope
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
Alexander Pope
Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
Alexander Pope
The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.
Alexander Pope
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander Pope