Alexander Pope Quotes, Years Quotes, Years Ago Quotes

The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.

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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.

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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

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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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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

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An honest man's the noblest work of God.

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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.

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