Alexander Pope Quotes, Self Quotes, Giving Quotes

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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.

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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

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Every woman is at heart a rake.

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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.

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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.

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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.

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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.

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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

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No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What the advantage, if his finer eyes Study a Mite, not comprehend the Skies?... Or quick Effluvia darting thro' his brain, Die of a Rose, in Aromatic pain? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres... Who finds not Providence all-good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

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And empty heads console with empty sound.

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