Alexander Pope Quotes, Numbers Quotes

I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.

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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

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So upright Quakers please both man and God.

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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.

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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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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.

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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.

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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.

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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

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