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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
Alexander Pope
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
Alexander Pope
The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
Alexander Pope
Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
Alexander Pope
I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
Alexander Pope
True self-love and social are the same.
Alexander Pope
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
Alexander Pope
Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
Alexander Pope
Genius involves both envy and calumny.
Alexander Pope
And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
Alexander Pope
The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
Alexander Pope
Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
Alexander Pope
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
Alexander Pope
Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
Alexander Pope
Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
Alexander Pope
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Alexander Pope
All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
Alexander Pope
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Alexander Pope
Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
Alexander Pope
Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
Alexander Pope
