Alexander Pope Quotes, Short Love Quotes, Fire Quotes

Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

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True self-love and social are the same.

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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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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

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

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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.

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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.

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

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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

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With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.

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