Alexander Pope Quotes, Wise Quotes, Dream Quotes

Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.

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The zeal of fools offends at any time.

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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

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This long disease, my life.

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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.

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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

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

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

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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

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The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?

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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.

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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

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