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Alexander Pope Inspirational Quotes (721)

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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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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 and preach.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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