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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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
Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
Alexander Pope
A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Alexander Pope
Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Alexander Pope
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
Alexander Pope
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Alexander Pope
Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
Alexander Pope
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
Alexander Pope
Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
Alexander Pope
It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
Alexander Pope
Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
Alexander Pope
Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
Alexander Pope
These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
Alexander Pope
While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
Alexander Pope
Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
Alexander Pope
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
Alexander Pope
Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
Alexander Pope
Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
Alexander Pope
In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
Alexander Pope
