Source: The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others: To which Were Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks
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Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers, F.S.A. and Others. To which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author
“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
“A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”
“Act well your part, there all the honour lies.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death
“The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire
Source: A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published
“Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.”
Source: An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to which is Added, The Universal Prayer, with Other Poems
“How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.”
“The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.”
“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
Source: Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope: And Several of His Friends
“For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.”
“But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems
“Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.”
Source: Poetical Works, with Life of the Author and Notes
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and Commentators
“The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.”
“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.”
“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!”
“If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.”
“Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with a life
“Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations
“Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.”
“On wrongs swift vengeance waits.”
Source: The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson
“And die of nothing but a rage to live.”
Source: The poems of Alexander Pope
“Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.”
Source: Poetical works
“Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,
“Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.”
“Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.”
Source: A reply to an
“A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.”
Source: The Dunciad: In Four Books
“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”
“Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly
“All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.”
“Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?”
“Health consists with temperance alone.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe
“But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly