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Alexander Pope Inspirational Quotes (721)

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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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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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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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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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