"Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray,……" — Alexander Pope
"Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day."
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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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Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
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Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know…
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that…
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
— James M. Barrie
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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
— Lynda Barry
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A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
— Drew Barrymore
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