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Alexander Pope quotes - page 12
Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
Alexander Pope
The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Alexander Pope
To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
Alexander Pope
While man exclaims, 'See all things for my use' 'See man for mine' replies a pamper'd goose.
Alexander Pope
Awake my St John Leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us, since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die, Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze but not without a.
Alexander Pope
So perish all who do the like again.
Alexander Pope
The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
Alexander Pope
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope
Such labour'd Nothings, in so strange a Style, Amaze th'unlearn'd, and make the Learned Smile.
Alexander Pope
Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
Alexander Pope
The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
Alexander Pope
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Alexander Pope
Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good humor, which is no more a virtue than drunkenness.
Alexander Pope
Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
Alexander Pope
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
Alexander Pope
With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.
Alexander Pope
Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
Alexander Pope
True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Alexander Pope
From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
Alexander Pope
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
Alexander Pope
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Alexander Pope
Ask you what provocation I have had The strong antipathy of good to bad.
Alexander Pope
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