Alexander Pope - Love Quotes

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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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That true self-love and social are the same.

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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.

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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.

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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

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Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

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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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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call,
And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

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The garlands fade, the vows are worn away;
So dies her love, and so my hopes decay.

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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame,
And bade self-love and social be the same.

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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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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat,
The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat,
To closer shades the panting flocks remove;
Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?

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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

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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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In men, we various ruling passions find;
In women, two almost divide the kind;
Those, only fix'd, they first or last obey,
The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom, Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!

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No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

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Oh happy state! when souls each other draw,
When love is liberty, and nature, law.

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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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