Not who you're looking for? Others named Alexander Pope: English poet (1688–1744) · Irish actor and painter (1763-1835) · American artist (1849-1924)
“They dream in Courtship, but in Wedlock wake.”
“I think it was a generous thought, and one that fow'd from an exalted mind, that it was not improbable but God might be delighted with the various methods of worshipping him, which divided the whole world.”
“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.”
“Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.”
“Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.”
“True politeness consists in the being easy one-self, and making every body about one as easy as we can.”
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