Alexander Pope Quotes, Father Quotes, Beer Quotes

Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!

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

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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

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

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I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.

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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.

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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!

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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.

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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.

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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

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Truth needs not flowers of speech.

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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.

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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

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