Alexander Pope Quotes

Woman's at best a contradiction still. - Alexander Pope

Wit is the lowest form of humor. - Alexander Pope

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. - Alexander Pope

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? - Alexander Pope

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise, - His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. - Alexander Pope

While pensive poets painful vigils keep - Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep. - Alexander Pope

Where'er you walk, cool glades shall fan the glade / Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade: / Where'er you tread, the blusing flow'rs shall rise, / And all things flourish where you turn your eyes. - Alexander Pope

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed. - Alexander Pope

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. - Alexander Pope

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever. - Alexander Pope

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