Alexander Pope Quotes, Tree Quotes, Fruit Quotes

A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

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While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.

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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

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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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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.

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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.

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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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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.

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Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

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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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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.

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The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!

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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!

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