Alexander Pope Quotations And Sayings

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“True, conscious honour is to feel no sin, he’s armed without that’s innocent within; be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.”
– Alexandra Pope

“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar’s mind.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?”
– Alexandra Pope

“Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Wit is the lowest form of humor.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Woman’s at best a contradiction still.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.”
– Alexandra Pope

“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Act well your part; there all the honour lies.”
– Alexandra 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.”
– Alexandra Pope

“And die of nothing but a rage to live”
– Alexandra Pope

“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev’n then, shall my cold dust remain”
– Alexandra Pope

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
– Alexandra Pope

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

“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d;”
– Alexandra Pope

“If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!”
– Alexandra Pope

“If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.”
– Alexandra Pope

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

“No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her; but mainly a woman hates a man for being her friend.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own”
– Alexandra Pope

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

“The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!”
– Alexandra Pope

“To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart”
– Alexandra Pope

“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.”
– Alexandra Pope

“What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e’er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.”
– Alexandra Pope

“You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.”
– Alexandra Pope

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