Alexander Pope Quotations And Sayings

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“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Stuff the head, With all such reading as was never read: For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Such laboured nothings in so strange a style, Amaze the unlearned, and make the learned smile.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.”
– Alexandra Pope

“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.”
– Alexandra Pope

“The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.”
– Alexandra Pope

“The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.”
– Alexandra Pope

“The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”
– Alexandra Pope

“The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.”
– Alexandra Pope

“The most positive men are the most credulous.”
– Alexandra Pope

“The proper study of Mankind is Man.”
– Alexandra Pope

“The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.”
– Alexandra Pope

“The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.”
– Alexandra Pope

“The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.”
– Alexandra Pope

“The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.”
– Alexandra Pope

“The world forgetting, by the world forgot.”
– Alexandra Pope

“The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.”
– Alexandra Pope

“There goes a saying, and ’twas shrewdly said, ‘Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.’”
– Alexandra Pope

“There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.”
– Alexandra Pope

“They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.”
– Alexandra Pope

“‘Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.”
– Alexandra Pope

“‘Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.”
– Alexandra Pope

“To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.”
– Alexandra Pope

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
– Alexandra Pope

“To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th’ observer’s sake.”
– Alexandra Pope

“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.’T is not enough no harshness gives offence — The sound must seem an echo to the sense.”
– Alexandra Pope

“True politeness consists in being easy one’s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.”
– Alexandra Pope

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