Alexander Pope Quotes, Passion Quotes, Reason Quotes

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.

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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.

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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

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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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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.

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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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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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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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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.

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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.

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