Alexander Pope quotes - page 3

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me dye; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lye. (Alexander Pope)
Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well To bear too tender, or too firm a heart To act a lover's or a Roman's part Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die. View quote
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How vast a memory has Love. View quote
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Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes. View quote
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What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing. View quote
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Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade Whereer you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes. View quote
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. View quote
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Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or when lap-dogs breathe their last. View quote
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell Thy fools no more I'll tease This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease. View quote
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Ambition first sprung from your bless'd abodes; The glorious fault of angels and of gods. View quote
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days. (Alexander Pope)
But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill. View quote
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It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out. View quote
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot. View quote
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage. View quote
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Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. View quote
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Here thou, great Anna whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea. View quote
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her. View quote
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For he lives twice who can at once employ The present well, and evn the past enjoy. View quote
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. View quote
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none! (Alexander Pope)
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. View quote
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An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded. View quote
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts. View quote
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For fools admire, but men of sense approve. View quote
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