Alexander Pope Quotes

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing

Alexander Pope

Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yarn confess The Pains and Penalties of Idleness.

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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres

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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have

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Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.

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At every word a reputation dies.

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Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found

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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

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There Affectation, with a sickly mien, Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen

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

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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

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

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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Alexander Pope