Alexander Pope Quotes, God Quotes, Wise Quotes

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.

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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.

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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]

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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.

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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

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Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.

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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.

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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.

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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.

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