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Alexander Pope Inspirational Quotes (721)

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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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True self-love and social are the same.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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