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Alexander Pope Quotes

«Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: extremes
«The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: boil, boiled egg, roast
«And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath/ Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet)
«As yet a child, not yet a fool to fame,/ I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet)
«Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: Aurora, dewy, lawn, sprinkled
«`With every pleasing, every prudent part,/ Say, what can Chloe want?' - She wants a heart.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet)
«Awake my St John! Leave all meaner things/ To low ambition, and the pride of kings./ Let us, since life can little more supply/ Than just to look about us and to die,/ Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man;/ A mighty maze! but not without a plan.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet)
«But let a lord once own the happy lines,/ How the wit brightens! how the style refines!»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet)
«Nor in the critic let the man be lost»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: The Critic
«Be niggards of advice on no pretense, For the worst avarice is that of sense»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: avarice, niggard, niggards