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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Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

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No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What the advantage, if his finer eyes Study a Mite, not comprehend the Skies?... Or quick Effluvia darting thro' his brain, Die of a Rose, in Aromatic pain? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres... Who finds not Providence all-good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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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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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.

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Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?

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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

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

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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.

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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.

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