Alexander Pope Quotes, Kings Quotes, Men Quotes

A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political 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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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

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The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.

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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.

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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!

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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.

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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.

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

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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.

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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

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

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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

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

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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

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