Alexander Pope Quotes, Wind Quotes, Wings Quotes

On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.

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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.

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

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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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True self-love and social are the same.

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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.

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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.

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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

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A field of glory is a field for all.

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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political 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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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.

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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.

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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

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