Alexander Pope Quotes, Moving Quotes, Blow Quotes

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

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

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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.

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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

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I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

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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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Most authors steal their works, or buy.

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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.

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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.

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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

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Wit and judgment often are at strife.

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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.

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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.

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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

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