Alexander Pope quotes - page 8

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke. (Alexander Pope)
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. View quote
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause. View quote
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. View quote
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. View quote
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Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay. View quote
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd. View quote
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot. View quote
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long Absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: Absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. View quote
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Each finding like a friend Something to blame, and something to commend. View quote
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Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began A mighty hunter, and his prey was man. (Alexander Pope)
From old Belerium to the northern main. View quote
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Let such, such only tread this sacred floor, Who dare to love their country and be poor. View quote
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Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe. View quote
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The garlands fade, the vows are worn away; So dies her love, and so my hopes decay. View quote
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The world recedes; it disappears! Heav'n opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring! Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting? View quote
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Boast not my fall (he cried), insulting foe! Thou by some other shalt be laid as low; Nor think to die dejects my lofty mind; All that I dread is leaving you behind! Rather than so, ah let me still survive, And burn in Cupid's flames - but burn alive. View quote
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This casket India's glowing gems unlocks And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. View quote
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Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. View quote
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I find myself just in the same situation of mind you describe as your own, heartily wishing the good, that is the quiet of my country, and hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. View quote
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Well, if our author in the wife offends He has a husband that will make amends; He draws him gentle, tender, and forgiving, And sure such kind good creatures may be living. (Alexander Pope)
I have nothing to say for rhyme, but that I doubt whether a poem can support itself without it, in our language; unless it be stiffened with such strange words, as are likely to destroy our language itself. View quote
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For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. View quote
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person. View quote
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. View quote
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