Alexander Pope Quotes, Tree Quotes, Fruit Quotes

A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.

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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

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Is not absence death to those who love?

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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.

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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.

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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?

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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 so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.

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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.

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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

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I have more zeal than wit.

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