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Alexander Pope Inspirational Quotes (721)

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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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