Alexander Pope Quotes, Kings Quotes, Enemy Quotes

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.

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

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That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in the Breeze, Glows in the Stars, and blossoms in the Trees... Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part... Submit - in this, or any other Sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood... All partial Evil, universal Good.

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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.

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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.

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

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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

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Cavil you may, but never criticise.

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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.

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Most women have no characters at all.

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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.

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Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

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