Alexander Pope Quotes, Song Quotes, Snakes Quotes

Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.

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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

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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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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.

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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

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

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All nature is but art unknown to thee.

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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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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

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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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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

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