Alexander Pope Quotes, Truth Quotes, Honesty Quotes

A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.

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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?

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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.

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

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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.

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

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I have more zeal than wit.

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Genius creates, and taste preserves.

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There is a majesty in simplicity.

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

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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.

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Order is heaven's first law.

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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

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