Alexander Pope Quotes, Wings Quotes, Hawks Quotes

Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.

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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

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The enormous faith of many made for one.

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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.

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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.

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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.

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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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I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.

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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.

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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

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