Alexander Pope Quotes, Sight Quotes, Blue Quotes

With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.

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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

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Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.

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Every woman is at heart a rake.

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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.

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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.

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

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