Alexander Pope Quotes, Believe Quotes, Qualifications Quotes

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

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Health consists with temperance alone.

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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.

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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.

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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

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