Alexander Pope Quotes, Hands Quotes, Play Quotes

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?

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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.

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And more than echoes talk along the walls.

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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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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

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

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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

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While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

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Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

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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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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.

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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.

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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.

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