Alexander Pope Quotes, God Quotes, Angel Quotes

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.

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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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There is a majesty in simplicity.

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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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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.

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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

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Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.

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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.

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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?

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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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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

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