Alexander Pope Quotes, Fall Quotes, Flames Quotes

Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.

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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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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.

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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

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