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Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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But if We have such another victory, we are undone.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
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Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
ALEXANDER POPE
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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ALEXANDER POPE
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil...
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
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To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
ALEXANDER POPE
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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From pride, from pride, our very reas
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Passions are the gales of life.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
ALEXANDER POPE
Die and endow a college or a cat.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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ALEXANDER POPE
A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
There sha...
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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
ALEXANDER POPE
In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fix
ALEXANDER POPE
You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
ALEXANDER POPE
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
ALEXANDER POPE
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ALEXANDER POPE
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
ALEXANDER POPE
True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
ALEXANDER POPE
When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
ALEXANDER POPE
I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,
To taste awhile the pleasures of a court;
In various talk...
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
ALEXANDER POPE
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
ALEXANDER POPE
I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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Act well your part; there all honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
ALEXANDER POPE
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
ALEXANDER POPE
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
ALEXANDER POPE
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
ALEXANDER POPE
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
ALEXANDER POPE
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
ALEXANDER POPE
Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
ALEXANDER POPE
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
ALEXANDER POPE
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPE
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
ALEXANDER POPE
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
ALEXANDER POPE
Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged th...
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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more ...
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Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy...
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
ALEXANDER POPE
An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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ALEXANDER POPE
Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
ALEXANDER POPE
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! l...
ALEXANDER POPE
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
ALEXANDER POPE
On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
ALEXANDER POPE
Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
ALEXANDER POPE
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
ALEXANDER POPE
The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.
ALEXANDER POPE
Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
ALEXANDER POPE
Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulg'd the d...
ALEXANDER POPE
In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
ALEXANDER POPE
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
ALEXANDER POPE
Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
ALEXANDER POPE
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
ALEXANDER POPE
To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
ALEXANDER POPE
Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name.
ALEXANDER POPE
No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such...
ALEXANDER POPE
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE
There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
ALEXANDER POPE
Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
ALEXANDER POPE
Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
ALEXANDER POPE
The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
ALEXANDER POPE
Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
ALEXANDER POPE
Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
ALEXANDER POPE
Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye...
ALEXANDER POPE
Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deep...
ALEXANDER POPE
Accept a miracle; instead of wit,-- See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
ALEXANDER POPE
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
ALEXANDER POPE
In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. P...
ALEXANDER POPE
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
ALEXANDER POPE
Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
ALEXANDER POPE
Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
ALEXANDER POPE
Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream, ...
ALEXANDER POPE
In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
ALEXANDER POPE
What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.
ALEXANDER POPE
No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.
ALEXANDER POPE
See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
ALEXANDER POPE
Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
ALEXANDER POPE
One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one ...
ALEXANDER POPE
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE
Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
ALEXANDER POPE
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
ALEXANDER POPE
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that ...
ALEXANDER POPE
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
ALEXANDER POPE
Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
ALEXANDER POPE
How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
ALEXANDER POPE
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
ALEXANDER POPE
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.
ALEXANDER POPE
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE
What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
ALEXANDER POPE
Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
ALEXANDER POPE
The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death, Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath.
ALEXANDER POPE
I have more zeal than wit.
ALEXANDER POPE
Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
ALEXANDER POPE
Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where o...
ALEXANDER POPE
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
ALEXANDER POPE
For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
ALEXANDER POPE
Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.
ALEXANDER POPE
At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall de...
ALEXANDER POPE
You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
ALEXANDER POPE
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.
ALEXANDER POPE
Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
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