Alexander Pope Quotes, Future Quotes, Knowing Quotes

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 when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

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In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.

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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

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The zeal of fools offends at any time.

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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.

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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.

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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.

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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.

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And not a vanity is given in vain.

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Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.

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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

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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.

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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.

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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

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