Alexander Pope Quotes, Tyrants Quotes, Lust Quotes

Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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

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Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

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

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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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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

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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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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.

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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!

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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them

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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.

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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.

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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

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