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Alexander Pope Inspirational Quotes (721)

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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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