Alexander Pope Quotes, Eye Quotes, Men Quotes

Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?

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

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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

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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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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

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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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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

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It is sure the hardest science to forget!

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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?

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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

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

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