Alexander Pope Quotes

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope



Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Alexander Pope



All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Alexander Pope



An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Alexander Pope



Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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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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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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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