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Life Quotes by Alexander Pope
- In death a hero, as in life a friend!
- Passions are the gales of life.
- For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
- For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong…
- 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…
- Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,…
- Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder,…
- Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than…
- The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
- [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?…
- I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
- Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
- The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
- The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
- Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in…
- A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
- All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
- On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
- Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
- This long disease, my life.
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