Alexander Pope Quotes, War Quotes, Delight Quotes

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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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.

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Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.

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

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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.

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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

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Hope springs eternal.

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That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in the Breeze, Glows in the Stars, and blossoms in the Trees... Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part... Submit - in this, or any other Sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood... All partial Evil, universal Good.

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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.

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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

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