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Love Quotes by Alexander Pope

77 Love quotes by Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope paints love as a rose that burns with fragrant pain, showing how beauty can hurt. He also sees family as a realm where trouble spreads, and he talks about the fleeting breath of desire that can lift or topple a lover. The verses blend gentle wind images with a longing for freedom.

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How vast a memory has Love!

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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

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Most women have no characters at all.

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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?

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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

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Most authors steal their works, or buy.

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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.

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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.

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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.

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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her; but many a woman hates a man for being only…

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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove;…

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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of…

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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a…

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“No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her; but mainly a woman hates a man for being her…

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In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey,…

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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a…

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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity;…

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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend,…

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There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine…

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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.

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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.

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There is a majesty in simplicity.

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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.

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Virtue alone is happiness below.

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In death a hero, as in life a friend!

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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

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Every professional was once an amateur.

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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!

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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?

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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.

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True self-love and social are the same.

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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or…

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue…

A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,…

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the…

Then say not Man's imperfect,Heav'n in fault; Say rather, Man's as perfect ashe ought:

First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged,…

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?