Alexander Pope quotes - page 5

In every age, In ev'ry clime ador'd, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! (Alexander Pope)
Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. View quote
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come Knock as you please, there's no body at home. View quote
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too. View quote
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By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned. View quote
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest. View quote
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Thou Great First Cause, least understood Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good And that myself am blind. View quote
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. View quote
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Heav'n, as its purest gold, by tortures tried; The saint sustained it, but the woman died. View quote
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest: The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. View quote
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There, take (says Justice), take ye each a shell: We thrive at Westminster on fools like you; 'T was a fat oyster,-live in peace,-adieu. (Alexander Pope)
Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But as the world, harmoniously confus'd, Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree. View quote
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I am growing fit, I hope, for a better world, of which light of the sun is but a shadow: for I doubt not but God's works here, are what comes nearest to his works there; and that a true relish of the beauties of nature is the most easy preparation and gentlest transition to an enjoyment of those of heaven; as on the contrary a true town life of hurry, confusion, noise, slander, and dissension, is a fort of apprenticeship to hell and its furies... The separation of my soul and body is what I could think of with less pain; for I sm very sure he that made it will take care of it, and in whatever state he pleases it shall be, that state must be right; but I cannot think without tears of beingseparated from my friends, when their condition is so douubtful, that they may want even such assistance as mine. View quote
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The flying Rumours gather'd as they roll'd, Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told; And all who told it, added something new, And all who heard it, made Enlargements too, In ev'ry Ear it spread, on ev'ry Tongue it grew. View quote
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Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw, Or stain her honour, or her new brocade, Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade. View quote
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause? View quote
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Such were the notes thy once lov'd poet sung, Till death untimely stopp'd his tuneful tongue. View quote
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This is the Jew That Shakespeare drew. View quote
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Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister spirit, come away! View quote
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On all the line a sudden vengeance waits, And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates. View quote
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Lo these were they, whose souls the Furies steel'd, And curs'd with hearts unknowing how to yield. Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day! So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe. (Alexander Pope)
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. View quote
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still. View quote
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. View quote
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This long disease, my life. View quote
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