Alexander Pope Quotes, Hair Quotes, Devil Quotes

Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.

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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.

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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.

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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.

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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.

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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.

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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

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