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Men Quotes by Alexander Pope

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A pamper'd goose answers man’s claim that everything exists for his use, highlighting selfishness. Pope mocks buying books that don’t fit, comparing them to ill‑fitting clothes, and warns against low ambition and kingly pride. He also suggests that verse can turn a worthy man into a foe.

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A perfect woman's but a softer man.

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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

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A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

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The most positive men are the most credulous.

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So upright Quakers please both man and God.

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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

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Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

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Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.

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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

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While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.

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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man…

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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call,…

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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst…

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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer…

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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in…

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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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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy; But wives, a random choice, untried they…

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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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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why…

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Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be Blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,…

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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard…

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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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No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not…

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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a…

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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour;…

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[T]hro this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go?…

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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.

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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

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Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

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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?