Alexander Pope quotes - page 10

Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross; Who pens a stanza, when he should engross. (Alexander Pope)
The right divine of kings to govern wrong. View quote
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most. View quote
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. View quote
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies! View quote
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Why did I write what sin to me unknown; Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own. View quote
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel. View quote
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And make each day a critic on the last. View quote
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Nothing is more certain than that much of the force, As well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends on their conciseness. View quote
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle. View quote
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action. (Alexander Pope)
You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. View quote
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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine but the music there. View quote
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend. View quote
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I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural. View quote
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies. View quote
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great. View quote
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. View quote
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We think our Fathers Fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser Sons, no doubt, will think us so. View quote
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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. View quote
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised. (Alexander Pope)
Die of a rose in aromatic pain. View quote
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Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe. View quote
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. View quote
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye. View quote
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