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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
— Alexander Pope
The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
— Alexander Pope
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
— Alexander Pope
He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
— Alexander Pope
To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
— Alexander Pope
There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, 'Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
— Alexander Pope
Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
— Alexander Pope
Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
— Alexander Pope
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
— Alexander Pope
Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
— Alexander Pope
O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize,And make my tongue victorious as her eyes. — Alexander Pope
What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
— Alexander Pope
Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
— Alexander Pope
Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
— Alexander Pope
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
— Alexander Pope
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
— Alexander Pope
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
— Alexander Pope
As some to church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
— Alexander Pope
Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
— Alexander Pope
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.
— Alexander Pope
Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
— Alexander Pope
Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
— Alexander Pope
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
— Alexander Pope
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
— Alexander Pope
All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
— Alexander Pope
Good-humor only teaches charms to last,Still makes new conquests and maintains the past. — Alexander Pope
Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
— Alexander Pope
A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
— Alexander Pope
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
— Alexander Pope
Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
— Alexander Pope
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
— Alexander Pope
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
— Alexander Pope
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
— Alexander Pope
Invention furnishes Art with all her materials, and without it, Judgement itself can at best but steal wisely.
— Alexander Pope
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
— Alexander Pope
See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
— Alexander Pope
Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrows all her rays from sense. — Alexander Pope
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
— Alexander Pope
Why charge we Heav'n in those, in these acquit?In both, to reason right is to submit. — Alexander Pope
Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea.
— Alexander Pope
Ye gods, annihilate but space and time,And make two lovers happy. — Alexander Pope
Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
— Alexander Pope
Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
— Alexander Pope
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
— Alexander Pope
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
— Alexander Pope
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
— Alexander 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.
— Alexander Pope
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
— Alexander Pope
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
— Alexander Pope
All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
— Alexander Pope
And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
— Alexander Pope
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
— Alexander Pope
All this dread order break- for whom? for thee?Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety! — Alexander Pope
Wit and judgment often are at strife.
— Alexander Pope
The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
— Alexander Pope
It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be,' restored the status quo.
— John Collings Squire
The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
— Alexander Pope
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
— Alexander Pope
Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
— Alexander Pope
How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
— Alexander Pope
Every professional was once an amateur.
— Alexander Pope
Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
— Alexander Pope
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
— Alexander Pope
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. — Alexander Pope
Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
— Alexander Pope
Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
— Alexander Pope
Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
— Alexander Pope
And more than echoes talk along the walls.
— Alexander Pope
I am his Highness' dog at Kew;Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? — Alexander Pope
The zeal of fools offends at any time.
— Alexander Pope
Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
— Alexander Pope
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
— Alexander Pope
No craving void left aching in the soul.
— Alexander Pope
The laughers are a majority.
— Alexander Pope
Be sure yourself and your own reach to know How far your genius taste and learning go.
— Alexander Pope
If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
— Alexander Pope
Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
— Alexander Pope
