Alexander Pope Quotes, Lying Quotes, Honor Quotes

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

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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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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]

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The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!

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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.

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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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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd

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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.

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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

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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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Cavil you may, but never criticise.

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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.

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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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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.

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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

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