Alexander Pope quotes - page 14

Curse on all laws, but those that love has made. (Alexander Pope)
Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave. View quote
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But where's the man who counsel can bestow, Still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know. View quote
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Mark what unvaried laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate. View quote
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Did some more sober critic come abroad; If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod. View quote
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite. View quote
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PLeas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind, And count each birthday with a grateful mind. View quote
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What's fame A fancied life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death. View quote
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight, Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight. View quote
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Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Csar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise 'T is but to know how little can be known To see all others' faults, and feel our own. View quote
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Envy will merit, as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true. (Alexander Pope)
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,health, peace, and competence. View quote
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we condemn in others, is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so. View quote
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same at last. View quote
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She who neer 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. View quote
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill Walk sober off before a sprightlier age Comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage. View quote
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Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know? View quote
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix'd 't is fix'd as in a frost Contracted all, retiring to the breast But strength of mind is exercise, not rest. View quote
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The people' voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God. View quote
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. View quote
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Blest paper-credit last and best supply; That lends corruption lighter wings to fly. (Alexander Pope)
Authors are partial to their Wit, 'tis true, But are not Criticks to their Judgment too? View quote
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True Wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, bet ne'er so well expressed. View quote
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Those oft are Stratagems which Errors seem, Nor is it Homer Nods, but We that Dream. View quote
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What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards Alas not all the blood of all the Howards. View quote
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