Alexander Pope Quotes, Character Quotes, People Quotes

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

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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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This long disease, my life.

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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.

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Every professional was once an amateur.

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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

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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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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.

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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

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A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

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

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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

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All nature is but art unknown to thee.

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