Alexander Pope Quotes, Convince Us Quotes, Water Quotes

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!

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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

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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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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!

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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

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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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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.

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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

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