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Alexander Pope Inspirational Quotes (721)

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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 take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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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 fool.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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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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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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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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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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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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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
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