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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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.

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Never find fault with the absent.

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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.

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

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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?

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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

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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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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

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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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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

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Woman's at best a contradiction still.

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