Alexander Pope Quotes, Failure Quotes, Pride Quotes

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.

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

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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.

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A field of glory is a field for all.

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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd

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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!

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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.

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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

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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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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.

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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

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Genius involves both envy and calumny.

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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

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