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Alexander Pope

A king is a mortal god on eart...

A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, 'Of a King', The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it pro

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Alexander Pope

Heav'n from all creatures hide...

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

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Alexander Pope

Fame can never make us lie dow...

Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

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Alexander Pope

Fine sense and exalted sense a...

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.

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Alexander Pope

To buy books as some do who ma...

To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.

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Alexander Pope

Giving advice is many times on...

Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

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Alexander Pope

Dear fatal name! rest ever unr...

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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Alexander Pope

Whether the darken'd room to m...

Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.

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Alexander Pope

Who ne'er knew joy but friends...

Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.

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Alexander Pope

Oh, when shall Britain, consci...

Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

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Alexander Pope

For wit and judgment often are...

For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.

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Alexander Pope

Poets like painters, thus unsk...

Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

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Alexander Pope

Still follow sense, of ev'ry a...

Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

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Alexander Pope

T is true,t is certain; man th...

T is true,t is certain; man though dead retains, Part of himself: the immortal mind remains.

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Alexander Pope

All chance, direction, which t...

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

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Alexander Pope

The only time you run out of c...

The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them

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Alexander Pope

Nor public flame, nor private,...

Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.

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Alexander Pope

Persons of genius, and those w...

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

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Alexander Pope

When we are young, we are slav...

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

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Alexander Pope

All looks yellow to a jaundice...

All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!

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