Alexander Pope Quotes, Life Quotes, Fighting Quotes

For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.

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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.

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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.

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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

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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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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.

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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.

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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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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.

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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

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

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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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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

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