Alexander Pope Quotes, Mind Blowing Quotes

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

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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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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

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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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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!

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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.

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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.

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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.

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

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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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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.

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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.

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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.

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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

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