Alexander Pope Quotes, Writing Quotes

And write about it, Goddess, and about it!

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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?

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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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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.

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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.

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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

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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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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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