Alexander Pope Quotations And Sayings

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“Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Means not, but blunders round about a meaning; And he whose fustian’s so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Men would be angels, angels would be gods.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!”
– Alexandra Pope

“Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Never find fault with the absent.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.”
– Alexandra 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.”
– Alexandra Pope

“No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Of all the causes which conspire to blind, Man’s erring judgment, and misguide the mind; What the weak head with strongest bias rules — Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.”
– Alexandra Pope

“On life‘s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.”
– Alexandra Pope

“On wrongs swift vengeance waits.”
– Alexandra Pope

“One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Passions are the gales of life.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Reason’s whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Satire’s my weapon, but I’m too discreet To run amuck and tilt at all I meet.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.”
– Alexandra Pope

“So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
– Alexandra 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.”
– Alexandra Pope

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