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Letter "A" » Alexander Pope Quotes
«Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But as the world, harmoniously confused, Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| About:
Chaos
| Keywords:
bruised, confused, crushed, differ, harmoniously, variety
«A little learning is a dangerous thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.»
«Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled, - The glory, jest, and riddle of the»
«Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind; What the weak head with strongest bias rules, - Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools»
«In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside»
«Such labored nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearned, and make the learned smile»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| Keywords:
amaze, labored, nothings, Nothing So Strange, unlearned, unlearning
«False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.»
«While pensive poets painful vigils keep - Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep»
«When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| Keywords:
absoluteness, changeless, Human sacrifice, Human thought, mutable, prize, sacrificed, state change, The Prize, Thine, whence
«Teach me to feel another's woe,To hide the fault I see,That mercy I to others show,That mercy show to me.»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| Keywords:
another, fault, feel, hide, hide out, mercy, others, see, show, Teach, to a fault, with mercy, woe
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