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Alexander Pope Inspirational Quotes (721)

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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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Is not absence death to those who love?
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes At every word a reputation dies.
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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