Alexander Pope quotes - page 13

To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines. (Alexander Pope)
Let such teach others who themselves excel And censure freely who have written well. View quote
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The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy. View quote
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No creature smarts so little as a fool. View quote
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return. View quote
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To what base Ends, and by what abject Ways, Are Mortals urg'd thro' Sacred Lust of praise! View quote
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! View quote
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If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to. View quote
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So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe. View quote
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Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame. View quote
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. (Alexander Pope)
Lo these were they, whose souls the Furies steel'd, And curs'd with hearts unknowing how to yield. View quote
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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. View quote
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The sick in body call for aid: the sick In mind are covetous of more disease; And when at worst, they dream themselves quite well. To know ourselves diseased, is half our cure. View quote
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Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise! Each stamps its image as the other flies! View quote
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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! View quote
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. View quote
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In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. View quote
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Some are bewilder'd in the Maze of Schools, And some made Coxcombs Nature meant but Fools. View quote
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming Mistress, but a barren bride. View quote
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense See Mystery to Mathematics fly. (Alexander Pope)
I was not born for courts and great affairs,but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers. View quote
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Nay, fly to altars there theyll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. View quote
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom. View quote
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In Men, we various Ruling Passions find; In Women, two almost divide the kind; Those, only fix'd, they first or last obey, The Love of Pleasure, and the Love of Sway. View quote
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