Alexander Pope Quotes About Virtue
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
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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, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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