Alexander Pope Quotes, Air Quotes, Wings Quotes

No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.

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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.

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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.

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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

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

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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.

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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.

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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.

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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

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