Alexander Pope Quotes, Wise Quotes, Fear Quotes

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born to die, and reasoning but to err.

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There is a majesty in simplicity.

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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.

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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.

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It is sure the hardest science to forget!

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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

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The enormous faith of many made for one.

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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.

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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.

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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

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