Alexander Pope Quotes, Vices Quotes, Want Quotes

Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.

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The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?

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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

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Wit is the lowest form of humor.

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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

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Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.

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

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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

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The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.

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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.

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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.

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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

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

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