Alexander Pope Quotes, Thanksgiving Quotes, Littles Quotes

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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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.

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Most women have no characters at all.

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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.

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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

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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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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.

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

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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.

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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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