Alexander Pope Short Quotes

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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

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And mistress of herself, though china fall.

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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

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That true self-love and social are the same.

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

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Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

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Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were.

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The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.

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Hark! they whisper; angels say,
Sister spirit, come away!

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A family is but too often but a commonwealth of malignants.

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And binding Nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will.

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Give me again my hollow tree,
A crust of bread, and liberty.

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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

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To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.

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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell,
For sober, studious days!

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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

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The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.

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The people's voice is odd,
It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

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Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time,
And make two lovers happy.

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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

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I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

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