75 Quotes by Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope was an English poet, essayist, and translator who is considered one of the greatest poets of the 18th century. He was born on May 21, 1688, in London, England, and wrote poetry from an early age. Pope's works include the "Essay on Criticism," "The Rape of the Lock," and the epic poem "The Dunciad." He was known for his use of heroic couplets, a form of poetry that uses pairs of rhyming iambic pentameter lines. Pope was also a master of satire and used his writing to comment on society and politics of his time. He died on May 30, 1744, in Twickenham, England. (Bio)
Alexander Pope Quotes
The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them (Meaning)
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. (Quote Meaning)
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. (Meaning)
Act well your part, there all the honour lies. (Quote Meaning)
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think. (Meaning)
Strength of mind is exercise, not rest. (Quote Meaning)
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. (Meaning)
An honest man's the noblest work of God. (Quote Meaning)
Tis not enough your counsel still be true; blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. (Meaning)
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. (Quote Meaning)
Wit is the lowest form of humor. (Meaning)
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. (Quote Meaning)
All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see. (Meaning)
Order is heaven's first law. (Quote Meaning)
Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. (Meaning)
Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? (Quote Meaning)
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice. (Meaning)
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. (Quote Meaning)
Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies. (Meaning)
What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone. (Quote Meaning)
True wit is nature to advantage dressed. (Meaning)
The proper study of mankind is man. (Quote Meaning)
Hope springs eternal in the human breast. (Meaning)
Fools admire, but men of sense approve. (Quote Meaning)
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person. (Meaning)
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
A little learning is a dangerous thing. (Quote Meaning)
To err is human; to forgive, divine. (Meaning)
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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.
O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. (Quote Meaning)
The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul. (Meaning)
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. (Quote Meaning)
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
There is a majesty in simplicity.
Every professional was once an amateur.
As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
Never find fault with the absent.
We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
Truth needs not flowers of speech.
Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
Expression is the dress of thought.
What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
― Alexander Pope Quotes
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