Alexander Pope Quotes About Life
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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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 whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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 horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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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, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
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This long disease, my life.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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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 just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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How vast a memory has Love!
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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