Alexander Pope Quotes, Night Quotes, Dancing Quotes

Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.

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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.

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And die of nothing but a rage to live.

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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

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Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

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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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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!

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Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

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No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.

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Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.

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