Alexander Pope Quotes, Life Quotes, Fighting Quotes

For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.

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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.

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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.

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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.

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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.

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I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.

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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

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