Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

"The world forgetting by the world forgot."
145 Quotes
"The world forgetting by the world forgot."
Alexander Pope
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
Alexander Pope
"The feast of reason and the flow of soul."
Alexander Pope
"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded."
Alexander Pope
"To err is human to forgive divine."
Alexander Pope
"Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
Alexander Pope
"Tis education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
Alexander Pope
"There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul."
Alexander Pope
"Men would be angels Angels would be gods."
Alexander Pope
"Till tired he sleeps and life's poor play is o'er."
Alexander Pope
"All are but parts of one stupendous whole Whose body Nature is and God the soul."
Alexander Pope
"When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything each of them generally gets that which he likes least."
Alexander Pope
"For fools admire but men of sense approve."
Alexander Pope
"I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian."
Alexander Pope
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
Alexander Pope
"Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, they rise, they break, and to that sea return."
Alexander Pope
"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice."
Alexander Pope
"I am his Highness' dog at Kew;Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?"
Alexander Pope
"For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends"
Alexander Pope
"Let Sporus tremble — "What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel"Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded wings,This painted Child of Dirt that stinks and stings; Whose Buzz the Witty and the Fair annoys,Yet Wit ne'er tastes, and Beauty ne'er enjoys,"
Alexander Pope
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