Alexander Pope Quotes, Fall Quotes, Pride Quotes

Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.

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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.

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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.

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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.

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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.

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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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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.

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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.

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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

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