Alexander Pope Quotes, Wall Quotes, Writing Quotes

Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.

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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.

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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.

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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

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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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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

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There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,The fall of favourites, projects of the great,Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.

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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.

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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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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

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