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Alexander Pope Inspirational Quotes (721)

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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
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Tis true, 'tis certain man, though dead, retains Part of himself the immortal mind remains.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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