Alexander Pope Quotes, Life Quotes, Play Quotes

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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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.

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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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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

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Beauty draws us with a single hair.

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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

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Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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Education forms the common mind.

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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.

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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

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