Alexander Pope Quotes, Peace Quotes, War Quotes

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

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Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

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A perfect woman's but a softer man.

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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

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And not a vanity is given in vain.

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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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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.

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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

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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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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

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