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Alexander Pope Inspirational Quotes (721)

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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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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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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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