Alexander Pope Quotes, Judging Quotes, Gold Quotes

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

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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

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An honest man's the noblest work of God.

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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.

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Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

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All nature is but art unknown to thee.

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

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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.

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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.

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Most authors steal their works, or buy.

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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

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I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.

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