Alexander Pope Quotes, God Quotes, Fall Quotes

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

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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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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing.

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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

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The zeal of fools offends at any time.

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Never find fault with the absent.

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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

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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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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).

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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.

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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.

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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

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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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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.

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