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Alexander Pope Inspirational Quotes (721)

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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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