Alexander Pope Quotes
113 Alexander Pope quotes:
"Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire"
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"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest."
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"Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake."
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"How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?"
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"But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor."
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"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God."
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"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."
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"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul."
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"Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought."
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"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child."
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"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
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"I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers."
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"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
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"The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more"
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"A little knowledge 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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"A little bit of knowledge"
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"True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit."
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"Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised."
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"Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing"
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"Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance"
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