Alexander Pope Quotes, Song Quotes, Long Quotes

But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.

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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.

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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.

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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove; Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?

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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

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