Alexander Pope Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Firsts Quotes

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.

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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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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.

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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

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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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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

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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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There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,The fall of favourites, projects of the great,Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.

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