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Alexander Pope Inspirational Quotes (721)

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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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Avoid Extremes and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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