Alexander Pope Quotes, Art Quotes, Soul Quotes

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?

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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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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.

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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

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All nature is but art unknown to thee.

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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

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Education forms the common mind.

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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.

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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.

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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.

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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.

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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

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