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Alexander Pope Inspirational Quotes (721)

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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
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I have more zeal than wit.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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The enormous faith of many made for one.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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