Alexander Pope Quotes, Wise Quotes, Night Quotes

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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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.

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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

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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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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

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The villain's censure is extorted praise.

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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.

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

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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

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

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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

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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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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

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