Alexander Pope Quotes, Long Quotes, Acting Quotes

A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

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I have more zeal than wit.

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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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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.

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Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.

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Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.

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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.

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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.

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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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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

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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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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

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