Alexander Pope Quotes, Confused Quotes, Order Quotes

Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.

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

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That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.

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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.

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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

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Never find fault with the absent.

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

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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.

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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

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It is sure the hardest science to forget!

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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.

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