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Alexander Pope Inspirational Quotes (721)

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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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Every woman is at heart a rake.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
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