Alexander Pope Quotes, Peace Quotes, Farewell Quotes

Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!

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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.

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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.

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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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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.

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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?

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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.

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There is a majesty in simplicity.

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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.

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