Alexander Pope Quotes, Dog Quotes, Thinking Quotes

But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.

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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!

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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.

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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.

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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.

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Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

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Never find fault with the absent.

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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.

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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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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

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