Alexander Pope Quotes, Future Quotes, Knowing Quotes

The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.

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Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?

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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.

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The most positive men are the most credulous.

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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.

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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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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

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And die of nothing but a rage to live.

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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.

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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.

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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

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