Alexander Pope Quotes, Song Quotes, Long Quotes

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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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

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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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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.

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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.

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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.

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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.

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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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And empty heads console with empty sound.

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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

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

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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

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