Alexander Pope Quotes, Father Quotes, Dark Quotes

Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.

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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.

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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

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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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And not a vanity is given in vain.

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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.

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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.

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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

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[T]hro this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing.... From Natures Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.

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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.

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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.

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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

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