Alexander Pope Quotes
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There, take (says Justice), take ye each a shell: We thrive at Westminster on fools like you; 'T was a fat oyster,-live in peace,-adieu.
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They shift the moving toyshop of their heart.
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A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,And drinking largely sobers us again.
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Such were the notes thy once lov'd poet sung, Till death untimely stopp'd his tuneful tongue.
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To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.
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Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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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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Well, if our author in the wife offendsHe has a husband that will make amends;He draws him gentle, tender, and forgiving,And sure such kind good creatures may be living.
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labour of the bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few.
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Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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On all the line a sudden vengeance waits, And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims, or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there. It gives one the image of a giant's den in a romance, bestrewed with scattered heads and mangled limbs.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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So unaffected, so compos'd a mind; So firm, yet soft; so strong, yet so retin'd; Heav'n, as its purest gold, by tortures try'd; The saint sustain'd it, but the woman died.
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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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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Ignobly vain, and impotently great.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister spirit, come away!
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The stoic husband was the glorious thing.The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true,And lov'd his country.
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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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?