Alexander Pope Quotes, Wise Quotes, Lying Quotes

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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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.

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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.

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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.

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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

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It is sure the hardest science to forget!

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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

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