Alexander Pope Quotes, Life Quotes, Prayer Quotes

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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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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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.

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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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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

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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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"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.

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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.

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The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!

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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.

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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.

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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.

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And make each day a critic on the last.

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