Alexander Pope Quotes, Dying Quotes, Saint Quotes

No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

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Order is heaven's first law.

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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.

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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

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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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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

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And empty heads console with empty sound.

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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.

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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.

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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

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