Alexander Pope Quotes

Mankind is unamendable.

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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.

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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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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.

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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.

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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.

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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.

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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

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Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.

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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.

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

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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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