Alexander Pope Quotes, Soil Quotes, Bears Quotes

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

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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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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.

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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

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With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

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Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

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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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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

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Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

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And empty heads console with empty sound.

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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.

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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

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And more than echoes talk along the walls.

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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

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