"Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the……" — Alexander Pope
"Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods."
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532 Quotes by Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope has 532 quotes on this site.
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they…
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the…
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once…
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul…
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Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our…
— Abu Bakr
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And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be…
— Donald Cargill
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A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone;…
— Chanakya
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The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of…
— William Ralph Inge
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I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very…
— Charles Dickens
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The body sleeps, the heart sleeps, the mind sleeps - but you remain alert because you are nothing else but…
— Rajneesh
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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and…
— Samuel Griswold Goodrich
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The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God. ... I do not worship matter. I worship…
— John of Damascus
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Yes, would to God that I could persuade the rich and the mighty that they would permit the whole Bible…
— Martin Luther
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
— Ovid
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No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.
— Wilfred Owen
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