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Alexander Pope Inspirational Quotes (721)

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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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