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Alexander Pope quotes

Alexander Pope
English poet (1688–1744)

Alexander Pope was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. An exponent of Augustan literature, Pope is best known for his satirical and discursive poetry including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism, and for his translation of Homer.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man.
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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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It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason: man is not a fly.
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Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes; Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell. Aspiring to be angels, men rebel.

           

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