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Gods Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
- In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,…
- Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
- Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to…
- 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…
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