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Alexander Pope Inspirational Quotes (721)

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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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