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From Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.
- Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
- Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
- Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
- Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free…
- From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
- It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
- 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…
- Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
- Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
- Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving…
- [T]hroÂ’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide?…
- Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from…
- Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course,…
- Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
- The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
- Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the…
- The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through…
- Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
- Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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