Teach Quotes by Alexander Pope

13 Teach quotes by Alexander Pope

Pope’s pen never shied away from the classroom, even if his verses were often laced with irony. These 13 snippets capture his take on instruction, a modest yet thoughtful glimpse into his literary counsel.

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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more…

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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To…

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

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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

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Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to…

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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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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

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A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please…

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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

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

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

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

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

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

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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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