Alexander Pope Quotes, Music Quotes, Warrior Quotes

By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.

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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

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Beauty draws us with a single hair.

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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.

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So perish all who do the like again.

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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

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

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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?

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Order is heaven's first law.

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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.

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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.

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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?

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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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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

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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 judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

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No craving void left aching in the soul.

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