Alexander Pope quotes - page 9

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best. (Alexander Pope)
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. View quote
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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think it was a generous thought, and one that fow'd from an exalted mind, that it was not improbable but God might be delighted with the various methods of worshipping him, which divided the whole world. View quote
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Methinks God has punish'd the Avaritious as he often punishes sinners, in their own way, in the ver sin itself: the thrist of gain was their crime, that thrist continued became their punishment and ruin. As for the few who have the good fortune to remain with half of what they imagined they had (among whom is your humble servantl, I would have them sensible of their felicity, and convinced of the truth of old Hesiod's maxim, who, after half his estate was swallowed by the Directors of those days, resolv'd, that half to be more than the whole. View quote
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So unaffected, so compos'd a mind; So firm, yet soft; so strong, yet so refin'd; Heav'n, as its purest gold, by tortures try'd; The saint sustain'd it, but the woman died. View quote
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Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died. In vain they schem'd, in vain they bled! They had no poet, and are dead. View quote
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Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. View quote
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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor. (Alexander Pope)
Never elated when one man 's oppress'd Never dejected while another 's bless'd. View quote
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A brain of feathers and a heart of lead. View quote
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think. View quote
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, But always think the last opinion right. View quote
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Truth needs not flowers of speech. View quote
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed. View quote
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. View quote
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest. View quote
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them. View quote
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye. (Alexander Pope)
Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands in unskillful, the most mischievous. View quote
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve. View quote
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. View quote
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Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross; Who pens a stanza, when he should engross. View quote
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