Alexander Pope Quotes - Page 30

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• Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made,
  One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade,
  The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd,
  The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Cobblers, Rags

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.221

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• The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

  Alexander Pope

  Leadership, Ambition, Sea

  Alexander Pope (1804). “The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings”, p.15

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• Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother
  About one vice and fall into another.

  Alexander Pope

  Fall, Vices, Vain

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• Wit is the lowest form of humor.

  Alexander Pope

  Humor, Literature, Form

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• True self-love and social are the same.

  Alexander Pope

  Self, Self Love, Social

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

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• Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Wind, Clouds

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 99

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