Alexander Pope Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Men Quotes

A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.

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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

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Education forms the common mind.

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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

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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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The laughers are a majority.

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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!

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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

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

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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

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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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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

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