Alexander Pope Quotes, Wise Quotes, Pain Quotes

No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What the advantage, if his finer eyes Study a Mite, not comprehend the Skies?... Or quick Effluvia darting thro' his brain, Die of a Rose, in Aromatic pain? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres... Who finds not Providence all-good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.

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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.

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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

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

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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.

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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.

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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

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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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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

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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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