Alexander Pope Quotes, Moving Quotes, Blow Quotes

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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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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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.

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Genius creates, and taste preserves.

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

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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.

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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.

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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

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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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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!

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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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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

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