Alexander Pope Quotes, Time Quotes, Winter Quotes

Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

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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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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.

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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

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

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Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

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

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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

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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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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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Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

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