Alexander Pope Quotes

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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive, divine.

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For forms of government let fools contest;
Whate'er is best administered is best.

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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense,
And love th'offender, yet detest th'offence?

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'Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed' was the ninth beatitude.

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How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.

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There various news I heard of love and strife,
Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,
Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,
Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,
Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,
Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,
Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,
The fall of favourites, projects of the great,
Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:
All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.

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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

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

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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show
'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

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

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Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he!

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That true self-love and social are the same.

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What then remains, but well our power to use,
And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose?
And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail,
When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.

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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 labour of the bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

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Of manners gentle, of affections mild;
In wit, a man; simplicity, a child;
With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage,
Formed to delight at once and lash the age.

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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

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