Alexander Pope Quotes, Vanity Quotes, Rivers Quotes

The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

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

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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?

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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.

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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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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.

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

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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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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.

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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.

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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

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