Alexander Pope Quotes About Time

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  • Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

    Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1797). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems”, p.88
  • Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

    Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.228
  • Dogs, ye have had your day!

    Homerus, Alexander Pope (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”
  • Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

    Alexander Pope (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers, F.S.A. and Others. To which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author”, p.411
  • I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

    Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker, Whitwell Elwin, William John Courthope (1871). “The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin”, p.67
  • Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

    'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 1, Epistle 1 (1738) l. 53
  • False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

  • Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

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