Alexander Pope Quotes, Warfare Quotes, Earth Quotes

The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.

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The zeal of fools offends at any time.

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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

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How vast a memory has Love!

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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

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Beauty draws us with a single hair.

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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove; Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?

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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.

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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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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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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

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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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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

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