Alexander Pope Quotations And Sayings

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“Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.”
– Alexandra Pope

“He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Heaven first taught letters for some wretch’s aid, Some banish’d lover, or some captive maid.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib’d, their present state.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.”
– Alexandra Pope

“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.”
– Alexandra Pope

“How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!”
– Alexandra Pope

“How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?”
– Alexandra Pope

“I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.”
– Alexandra Pope

“I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.”
– Alexandra Pope

“If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.”
– Alexandra Pope

“If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?”
– Alexandra Pope

“If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.”
– Alexandra Pope

“In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.”
– Alexandra Pope

“It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.’T is more by art than force of num’rous strokes.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?”
– Alexandra Pope

“Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Like leaves on trees the race of man is found — Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!”
– Alexandra Pope

“Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!”
– Alexandra Pope

“Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.”
– Alexandra Pope

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