Alexander Pope - Heart Quotes

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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep,
Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

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Lo these were they, whose souls the Furies steel'd,
And curs'd with hearts unknowing how to yield.
Thus unlamented pass the proud away,
The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day!
So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow
For others' good, or melt at others' woe.

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Unlearn'd, he knew no schoolman's subtle art,
No language, but the language of the heart.
Of his own father

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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;
To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold,
Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold:
For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.

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Of women:
With varying vanities, from every part,
They shift the moving toyshop of the heart.

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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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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But ev'ry woman is at heart a rake.

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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well?
To bear too tender, or too firm a heart,
To act a lover's or a Roman's part?
Is there no bright reversion in the sky,
For those who greatly think, or bravely die?

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If I am right, Thy grace import
Still in the right to stay;
If I am wrong, oh teach my heart
To find that better way!

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"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.

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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy,
The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy,
Is virtue's prize.

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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.

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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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