Quotes by Alexander Pope

About Alexander Pope:

Alexander Pope is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare.
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Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.

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Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.

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Poetic justice, with her lifted scale, Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise. Here she beholds the chaos dark and deep, Where nameless somethings in their causes sleep, Till genial Jacob, or a warm...

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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

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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

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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

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To err is human, to forgive, divine.

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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

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Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.

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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness set...

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

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Order is heaven's first law.

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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride...

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Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find, Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind? First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess, Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less! Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made Taller or stronger than...

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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

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Author Bio

  • NameAlexander Pope
  • Descriptioneighteenth century English poet
  • BornMay 21, 1688
  • DiedMay 30, 1744
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPoet; Literary Historian; Translator; Writer