Alexander Pope Quotes, Vanity Quotes, Vain Quotes

And not a vanity is given in vain.

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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.

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How vast a memory has Love!

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There is a majesty in simplicity.

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Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

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In death a hero, as in life a friend!

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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.

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The proper study of Mankind is Man.

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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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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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Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.

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

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Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

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