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Alexander Pope Inspirational Quotes (721)

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Words are like Leaves and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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