Alexander Pope Quotes, Simplicity Quotes

There is a majesty in simplicity.

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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.

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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 seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.

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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.

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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.

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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.

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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?

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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

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What will a child learn sooner than a song?

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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.

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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

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Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.

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

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