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Alexander Pope quotes: Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you. Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
Alexander Pope quotes: Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
Alexander Pope quotes: And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Alexander Pope quotes: Love the offender, yet detest the offense. Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
Alexander Pope quotes: From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king. From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
Alexander Pope quotes: For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd. For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
Alexander Pope quotes: A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill. A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
Alexander Pope quotes: Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
Alexander Pope quotes: The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life. The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
Alexander Pope quotes: To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise! To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
Alexander Pope quotes: From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
Alexander Pope quotes: Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles. Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
Alexander Pope quotes: This long disease, my life. This long disease, my life.
Alexander Pope quotes: Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score. Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
Alexander Pope quotes: For he lives twice who can at once employ,The present well, and e'en the past enjoy. For he lives twice who can at once employ,
The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
Alexander Pope quotes: Know thy own point: this kind, this due degreeOf blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree
Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee.
Alexander Pope quotes: Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one. Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
Alexander Pope quotes: Brevity is the soul of wit. Brevity is the soul of wit.
Alexander Pope quotes: One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope quotes: Heaven gave to woman the peculiar graceTo spin, to weep, and cully human race. Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace
To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
Alexander Pope quotes: Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part. Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
Alexander Pope quotes: Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies. Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
Alexander Pope quotes: There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Alexander Pope quotes: If I am right, Thy grace impartStill in the right to stay;If I am wrong, O, teach my heartTo find that better way! If I am right, Thy grace impart
Still in the right to stay;
If I am wrong, O, teach my heart
To find that better way!
Alexander Pope quotes: Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live. Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
Alexander Pope quotes: A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
Alexander Pope quotes: Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
Alexander Pope quotes: Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease! Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
Alexander Pope quotes: The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
Alexander Pope quotes: The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool. The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
Alexander Pope quotes: The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know. The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
Alexander Pope quotes: A pear-tree planted nigh:'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show,And hung with dangling pears was every bough. A pear-tree planted nigh:
'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show,
And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
Alexander Pope quotes: Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend. Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
Alexander Pope quotes: She sins with poets through pure love of wit She sins with poets through pure love of wit
Alexander Pope quotes: Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness. Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
Alexander Pope quotes: Who dare to love their country, and be poor. Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
Alexander Pope quotes: Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream; Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream;
Alexander Pope quotes: The sound must seem an echo to the sense. The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
Alexander Pope quotes: He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest. He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
Alexander Pope quotes: Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms. Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
Alexander Pope quotes: The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest. The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
Alexander Pope quotes: To teach vain Wits that Science little known,T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own! To teach vain Wits that Science little known,
T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
Alexander Pope quotes: Tis all in vain to keep a constant potherAbout one vice and fall into another. Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother
About one vice and fall into another.
Alexander Pope quotes: Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole. Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
Alexander Pope quotes: Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Alexander Pope quotes: But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate. But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
Alexander Pope quotes: The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong. The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
Alexander Pope quotes: Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew. Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
Alexander Pope quotes: Dogs, ye have had your day! Dogs, ye have had your day!
Alexander Pope quotes: A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it. A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.
Alexander Pope quotes: Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state. Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
Alexander Pope quotes: The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Alexander Pope quotes: These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd! These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
Alexander Pope quotes: Know thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man. Know thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
Alexander Pope quotes: Learn from the beasts the physic of the field. Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
Alexander Pope quotes: Every woman is at heart a rake. Every woman is at heart a rake.
Alexander Pope quotes: In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
Alexander Pope quotes: The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth. The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
Alexander Pope quotes: Some place the bliss in action, some in ease,Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. Some place the bliss in action, some in ease,
Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
Alexander Pope quotes: To Him no high, no low, no great, no small;He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all! To Him no high, no low, no great, no small;
He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
Alexander Pope quotes: Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies. Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
Alexander Pope quotes: Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Alexander Pope quotes: Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
Alexander Pope quotes: Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind. Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
Alexander Pope quotes: And little eagles wave their wings in gold. And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
Alexander Pope quotes: A field of glory is a field for all. A field of glory is a field for all.
Alexander Pope quotes: Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Alexander Pope quotes: I have more zeal than wit. I have more zeal than wit.
Alexander Pope quotes: The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are? The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?
Alexander Pope quotes: Mankind is unamendable. Mankind is unamendable.
Alexander Pope quotes: Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private. Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
Alexander Pope quotes: Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.
Alexander Pope quotes: Education forms the common mind. Education forms the common mind.
Alexander Pope quotes: See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep. See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
Alexander Pope quotes: Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend. Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
Alexander Pope quotes: Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
Alexander Pope quotes: An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them. An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
Alexander Pope quotes: All this dread order break- for whom? for thee?Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety! All this dread order break- for whom? for thee?
Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety!
Alexander Pope quotes: When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last. When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
Alexander Pope quotes: Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind. Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
Alexander Pope quotes: How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine. How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
Alexander Pope quotes: A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants. A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
Alexander Pope quotes: The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
Alexander Pope quotes: Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew. Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
Alexander Pope quotes: Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Alexander Pope quotes: Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
Alexander Pope quotes: As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out. As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
Alexander Pope quotes: Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Alexander Pope quotes: Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all . Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
Alexander Pope quotes: No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her. No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
Alexander Pope quotes: Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise? Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
Alexander Pope quotes: Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light. Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.
Alexander Pope quotes: How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight! How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
Alexander Pope quotes: True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can. True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Alexander Pope quotes: What will a child learn sooner than a song? What will a child learn sooner than a song?
Alexander Pope quotes: All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye. All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
Alexander Pope quotes: Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost! Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
Alexander Pope quotes: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. From Nature's chain whatever link you strike,
Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
Alexander Pope quotes: To err is human, to forgive, divine. To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope quotes: Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

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