Alexander Pope Quotes, Passion Quotes, Fool Quotes

Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.

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Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.

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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.

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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

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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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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.

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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.

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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

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