Alexander Pope the Poet, biography, facts and quotes

"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"

"On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale"

"Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?"

"The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg"

"Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!"

"Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools"

"At ev'ry word a reputation dies"

"Order is heaven's first law"

"Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can"

"One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit"

"On wrongs swift vengeance waits"

"And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade"

"And die of nothing but a rage to live"

"And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too"

"An honest man's the noblest work of God"

"All nature is but art unknown to thee"

"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul"

"Act well your part, there all the honour lies"

"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left"

"A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits"

"A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity"

"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring"

"A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature"

"Woman's at best a contradiction still"

"Wit is the lowest form of humor"

"Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be"

"Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example"

"No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her"

"To err is human; to forgive, divine"

"They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake"

"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head"

"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God"

"Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul"

"But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor"

"But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?"

"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude"

"Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw"

"Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul"

"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside"

"Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise"

"How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?"

"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends"

"Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel"

"Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me"

"Men would be angels, angels would be gods"

"Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies"

"Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon"

"Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die"

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest"

"Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance"

Occup.	Poet
From	England
Born	May 21, 1688 England
Died	May 30, 1744 England
Aged	56 years

Alexander Pope Biography

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