Alexander Pope Quotes, Ajax Quotes, Light Quotes

The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.

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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.

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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.

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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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Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.

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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

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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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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

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

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It is sure the hardest science to forget!

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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

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

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