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Quotations By Alexander Pope


Age
A bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.

Beauty
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve

Boldness
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Character
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

Destiny
But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Education
'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.

Education
A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.

Education
Some people never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

Faith
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Fate
But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Health
Health consists with temperance alone. -- Alexander Pope

Honesty
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. -- Alexander Pope

Instinct
But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

Love
Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Nature
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. -- Alexander Pope

Opinion
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

Pain
You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live.

Tolerance
It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out.

Will
And binding nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will.

Words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. -- Alexander Pope