Alexander Pope Quotes, Passion Quotes

chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!

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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.

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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.

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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?

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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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False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it

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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

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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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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.

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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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