Alexander Pope Quotes

Alexander Pope Quotes

Alexander Pope Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Alexander Pope:

"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;"

"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."

"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."

"Fools admire, but men of sense approve."

"Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend."

"Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think."

"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."

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

"And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too."

"Blessed is he who exp"

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