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Alexander Pope Inspirational Quotes (721)

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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Hope springs eternal.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
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