Alexander Pope quotes - page 15

The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not Wife, To help me through this long disease, my life. (Alexander Pope)
O happiness our being's end and aim Good, pleasure, ease, content whate'er thy name That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die. View quote
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True disputants are like true sportsman their whole delight is in the pursuit. View quote
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While pensive Poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. View quote
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled, The glory, jest, and riddle of the world. View quote
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us. View quote
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed. View quote
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain. View quote
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Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot. View quote
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land All fear, none aid you, and few understand. View quote
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee. (Alexander Pope)
Good-Nature and Good-Sense must ever join; To err is Humane; to Forgive, Divine. View quote
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather or prunello. View quote
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore Full well they merit all they feel, and more Unaw'd by precepts, human or divine, Like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join. View quote
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. View quote
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Some judge of Authors' Names, not Works, and then Nor praise nor blame the Writings, but the Men. View quote
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What terrible moments does one feel after one has engaged for a large work! In the beginning of my translating the Iliad, I wished any body would hang me a hundred times. It sat so heavily on my mind at first, that I often used to dream of it; and do so sometimes still. When I fell into the method of translating 30 or 40 verses before I got up, and piddled with it the rest of the morning, it went on easily enough; and when I was thoroughly got into the way of it, I did the rest with pleasure. View quote
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The Iliad took me up six years, and during that time, and particularly the first part of it, I was often under great pain and apprehensions. Though I conquered the thoughts of it in the day, they would frighten me in the night. I dreamed often of being engaged in a long journey, and that I should never get to the end of it. This made so strong an impression upon me, that I sometimes dream of it still; of being engaged in that translation, of having got about half way through it, and being embarrassed, and under dread of never completing it. View quote
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