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An eighteenth-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an eighteenth-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson. Pope is famous for his use of the heroic couplet. Here are some famous quotes by Alexander Pope.
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An excuse is a lie guarded.
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Order is Heaven's first law.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Alive ridiculous and dead forgot?
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To err is human; to forgive divine.
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Hunger is insolent and will be fed.
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All gardening is landscape painting.
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What so tedious as a twice-told tale?
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He that would pun would pick a pocket.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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Strength of mind is exercise not rest.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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One truth is clear Whatever is is right.
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The feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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The world forgetting by the world forgot.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
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Then marble soften'd into life grew warm.
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For fools admire but men of sense approve.
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Men would be angels; Angels would be gods.
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Thou wert my guide philosopher and friend.
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Eve left Adam to meet the Devil in private.
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He mounts the storm and walks upon the wind.
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They dream in courtship but in wedlock wake.
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For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame.
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night.
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Till tired he sleeps and life's poor play is o'er.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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An obstinate man does not hold opinions but they hold him.
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Blessed be he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.
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A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practise it.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is but always to be blest.
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Know then thyself presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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The learned is happy nature to explore the fool is happy that he knows no more.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree but all mankind's concern is charity.
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The ruling passion be it what it will The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's bless'd.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole Whose body Nature is and God the soul.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Light quirks of music broken and uneven make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven.
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Light quirks of music broken and uneven Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting by the world forgot.
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Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Thus education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
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'Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
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And all who told it added something new And all who heard it made enlargements too.
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For I who hold sage Homer's rule the best Welcome the coming speed the going guest.
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heav'n.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk at least before they dance.
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There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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We think our fathers fools so wise we grow; Our wiser sons no doubt will think us so.
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Get place and wealth if possible with grace; If not by any means get wealth and place.
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Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said 'Let Newton be!' and all was light.
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Offend her and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her and she'll hate you while you live.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was nor is nor e'er shall be.
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Worth makes the man and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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How shall I love the sin yet keep the sense And love the offender yet detest the offence?
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True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well express'd.
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True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed.
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs. What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Thus let me live unseen unknown Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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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!
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I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring; Their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain And drinking largely sobers us again.
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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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In pride in reas'ning pride our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes Men would be angels angels would be gods.
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend to make one see him the truer.
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False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch we find the lightness and alloy and feel the loss.