Authors - Alexander Pope
Brief Biography
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 - 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson. - Wikipedia
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Quote 1364by Anonymous on 12/01/2011
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Quote 4719by Anonymous on 26/02/2011
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Quote 5607by Anonymous on 29/07/2011
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.
Quote 5673by Anonymous on 18/08/2011
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
Quote 6295by Anonymous on 18/09/2011
Man: the glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
Quote 6700by Anonymous on 04/10/2011
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
Quote 7015by Anonymous on 16/10/2011
And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.
Quote 7198by Anonymous on 27/10/2011
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Quote 7597by Anonymous on 28/12/2011
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Quote 8336by Anonymous on 06/05/2012
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Quote 8808by Anonymous on 30/05/2012
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Quote 9492by Anonymous on 01/08/2012
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Quote 13583by Anonymous on 04/08/2013
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
