Alexander Pope
Quotations
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“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.” -Alexander Pope
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“Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.” -Alexander Pope
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“Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.” -Alexander Pope
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“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.” -Alexander Pope
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“Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.” -Alexander Pope
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“One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.” -Alexander Pope
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“The most positive men are the most credulous.” -Alexander Pope
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“Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.” -Alexander Pope
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“The most positive men are the most credulous.” -Alexander Pope
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“They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.” -Alexander Pope
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“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.” -Alexander Pope
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“A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.” -Alexander Pope
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“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.” -Alexander Pope
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“Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.” -Alexander Pope
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“Health consists with temperance alone.” -Alexander Pope
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“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.” -Alexander Pope
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“The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.” -Alexander Pope
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“For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.” -Alexander Pope
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“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.” -Alexander Pope
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“But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?” -Alexander Pope
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“To err is human to forgive, divine.” -Alexander Pope
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“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” -Alexander Pope
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“For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.” -Alexander Pope
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“‘Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.” -Alexander Pope
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“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.” -Alexander Pope
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“The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.” -Alexander Pope
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“If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.” -Alexander Pope
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“Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.” -Alexander Pope
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“One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.” -Alexander Pope
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. – Alexander Pope
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