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Alexander Pope Inspirational Quotes (721)

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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Education forms the common mind.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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