Alexander Pope Quotes, Kings Quotes, Men Quotes

A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.

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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.

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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.

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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

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

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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.

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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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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

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A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

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

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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

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