Alexander Pope - Eyes Quotes

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Coffee, which makes the politician wise,
And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

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Far eastward cast thine eye, from whence the Sun And orient Science their brite course begun.

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O! Would the Sons of Men 3 once think their Eyes And Reason given them but to study Flies!

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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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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes;
And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

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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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Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome. No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes.

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Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll,
In pleasing memory of all he stole.

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All seems infected that th'infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).

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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

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Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike,
And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.

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The world recedes; it disappears!
Heav'n opens my eyes! my ears
With sounds seraphic ring!
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O grave! where is thy victory?
O death! where is thy sting?

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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize,
And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

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By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed,
By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed,
By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned,
By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

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Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade,
Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade:
Where'er you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise,
And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,
A hero perish or a sparrow fall,
Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd,
And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

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Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies,
And catch the Manners living as they rise.
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can;
But vindicate the ways of God to man.

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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever
From the fair head, forever, and forever!
Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes,
And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.

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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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Why has not man a microscopic eye?
For this plain reason, man is not a fly.

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