Alexander Pope Quotes

Whatever is, is right.

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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

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

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In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.

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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.

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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.

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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

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Most authors steal their works, or buy.

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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.

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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

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