Alexander Pope Quotes, Music Quotes, Pain Quotes

Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.

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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.

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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.

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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.

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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.

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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.

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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.

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