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Alexander Pope Inspirational Quotes (721)

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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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Mankind is unamendable.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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