Alexander Pope Quotes, Lying Quotes, Good Friend Quotes

If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.

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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.

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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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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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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

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Passions are the gales of life.

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Hope springs eternal.

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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it

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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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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

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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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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.

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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

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

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Never find fault with the absent.

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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.

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