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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope
The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
Alexander Pope
What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
Alexander Pope
Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
Alexander Pope
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
Alexander Pope
Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
Alexander Pope
E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
Alexander Pope
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
Alexander Pope
Order is heaven's first law.
Alexander Pope
Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
Alexander Pope
O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
Alexander Pope
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
Alexander Pope
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
Alexander Pope
Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
Alexander Pope
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Alexander Pope
The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
Alexander Pope
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Alexander Pope
Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
Alexander Pope
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
Alexander Pope
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander Pope