Alexander Pope Quotes, Art Quotes, Believe Quotes

I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.

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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.

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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

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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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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

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I have more zeal than wit.

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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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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.

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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

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