Alexander Pope Quotes, Convince Us Quotes, Water Quotes

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

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Never find fault with the absent.

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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.

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

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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?

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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.

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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

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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 race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

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