Alexander Pope Quotes, Stars Quotes, War Quotes

There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,The fall of favourites, projects of the great,Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.

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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.

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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

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There is a majesty in simplicity.

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The villain's censure is extorted praise.

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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.

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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.

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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.

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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.

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