Alexander Pope Quotes, Night Quotes, Dancing Quotes

Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.

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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.

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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy; But wives, a random choice, untried they take; They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake; Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.

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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.

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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

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And more than echoes talk along the walls.

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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.

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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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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.

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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?

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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.

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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born to die, and reasoning but to err.

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The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!

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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.

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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.

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Genius involves both envy and calumny.

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