Alexander Pope Quotes About Self Love

Quotes about: Self Love

• Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

  Alexander Pope

  Love, Acceptance, Self

• The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

  Alexander Pope

  Believe, Men, Self

  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.126

• True self-love and social are the same.

  Alexander Pope

  Self, Self Love, Social

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 4 (1734) l. 396

• Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul;
  Reason's comparing balance rules the whole.
  Man, but for that no action could attend,
  And, but for this, were active to no end:
  Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
  To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot;
  Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void,
  Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Spring, Men, Self

  Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.55, Courier Corporation

• Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

  Alexander Pope

  Self, Social, God And Nature

  1733 An Essay on Man, epistle 3, l.317-18.

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