Popular Quotes by Alexander Pope

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• We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

  Alexander Pope#Father 596

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• Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

  Alexander Pope#Tyranny 475

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• All seems infected that the infected spy,As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

  Alexander Pope#Perception 119

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• They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

  Alexander Pope#Marriage 105

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• Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

  Alexander Pope#Merit 89

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• The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

  Alexander Pope#Intelligence 89

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• 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.

  Alexander Pope#Learning 81

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

  Alexander Pope#Faith 80

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

  Alexander Pope#Aside 78

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• Act well your part; there all honor lies.

  Alexander Pope#Honor 77

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