Alexander Pope Quotes, Past Quotes, Errors Quotes

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.

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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.

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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

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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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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

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I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.

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There is a majesty in simplicity.

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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.

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With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.

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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.

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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!

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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!

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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.

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