Alexander Pope Quotes

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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies; so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.

Alexander Pope
Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

Alexander Pope
He, who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into system runs, What other planets circle other suns, What varied Being peoples every star, May tell why Heaven has made us as we are...

Alexander Pope
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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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

Alexander Pope
Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.

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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.

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

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

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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.

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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

Alexander Pope