Alexander Pope Quotes, Laughter Quotes, Ambition Quotes

Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.

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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.

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But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd

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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.

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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

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Passions are the gales of life.

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Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.

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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

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Most women have no characters at all.

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That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in the Breeze, Glows in the Stars, and blossoms in the Trees... Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part... Submit - in this, or any other Sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood... All partial Evil, universal Good.

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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.

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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.

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