Alexander Pope - Man Quotes

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise, and rudely great.

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Of manners gentle, of affections mild;
In wit, a man; simplicity, a child;
With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage,
Formed to delight at once and lash the age.

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No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.

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Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.

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Praise is like ambergris; a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

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Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he!

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A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod;
An honest man's the noblest work of God.

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Why has not man a microscopic eye?
For this plain reason, man is not a fly.

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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate,
And greatly falling with a falling state.
While Cato gives his little senate laws,
What bosom beats not in his country's cause?

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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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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

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But those who cannot write, and those who can,
All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

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Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies,
And catch the Manners living as they rise.
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can;
But vindicate the ways of God to man.

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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

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The stoic husband was the glorious thing.
The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true,
And lov'd his country.

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Not always actions show the man: we find Who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

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Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began
A mighty hunter, and his prey was man.

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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 to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

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

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