Alexander Pope Quotes, Life Quotes, Play Quotes

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

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Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.

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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.

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No craving void left aching in the soul.

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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

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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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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!

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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

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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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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

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

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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.

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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?

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