Alexander Pope Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Style Quotes

What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

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The proper study of Mankind is Man.

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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.

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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.

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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.

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Never find fault with the absent.

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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.

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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.

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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.

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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

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

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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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