Alexander Pope Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

  Alexander Pope

  Memories, Past, Men

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.125

• When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

  Alexander Pope

  Change, Past, Path

• For he lives twice who can at once employ,
  The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Past, Time Management

  "The Poems of Alexander Pope". Book edited by John Butt, sixth edition, p. 117, 1970.

• When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

  Alexander Pope

  Past, Lasts, Argument

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Verse and Prose”, p.272

• Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

  Alexander Pope

  Past, Errors, Needs

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1757). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.148

• In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

  Alexander Pope

  Queens, Eye, Past

  Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.49, BookCaps Study Guides

• Good-humor only teaches charms to last,
  Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

  Alexander Pope

  Character, Past, Lasts

• Old politicians chew on wisdom past,
  And totter on in business to the last.

  Alexander Pope

  Past, Politics, Lasts

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Cobham' (1734) l. 248

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