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Alexander Pope Inspirational Quotes (721)

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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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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 than Heav'n pursue.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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As with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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