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Quotes by Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

What dire offence from amrous causes springs,What mighty contests rise from trivial things,...

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot.Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain;And here, evn then, shall my cold dust remain

For fools admire but men of sense approve.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear anothers misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

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

Till tired he sleeps and lifes poor play is oer.

Men would be angels Angels would be gods.

There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul.

Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the trees inclined.

Tis education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the trees inclined.

To err is human to forgive divine.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.

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

The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

The world forgetting by the world forgot.

How shall I love the sin yet keep the sense And love the offender yet detest the offence?

To err is human to forgive divine.