Alexander Pope Quotes are available here. Who is Alexander Pope? He is seen as one of the greatest English poets and the foremost poet of the early 18th century. Born in May 21, 1688, at London, United Kingdom and Died in May 30, 1744, at Radnor House Independent School, Twickenham, United Kingdom
Top 10 Alexander Pope Quotes
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Alexander Pope Quotes on Love
How vast a memory has Love!
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! What are you to love?
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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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Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.
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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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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, ’tis true the hardest science to forget.
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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.
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For when success a lover’s toil attends, few ask, if fraud or force attain’d his ends.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, and make two lovers happy.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, and Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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Now warm in love, now with’ring in my bloom, lost in a convent’s solitary gloom!
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Most critics, fond of some subservient art, still make the whole depend upon a part.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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And while self-love each jealous writer rules, contending wits become the sport of fools.
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Thus critics, of less judgment than caprice, curious not knowing, not exact but nice, form short ideas; and offend in arts by a love to parts.
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Is not absence death to those who love?
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, to whom related, or by whom begot, a heap of dust alone remains of thee, ’tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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Alexander Pope Quotes From ‘An Essay On Man’
Order is heaven’s first law.
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And, spite of pride, in erring reason’s spite, one truth is clear: Whatever is, is right.
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All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, aspiring to be angels, men rebel.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.
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Where one step broken, the great scale’s destroyed.
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In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. What then? Is the reward of virtue bread?
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Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions sense from thought divide!
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And grant the bad what happiness they would; One they must want, which is to pass for good.
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Know, Nature’s children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch, warmed a bear.
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Born but to die, and reas’ning but to err. Alike in ignorance, his reason such, whether he thinks too little or too much.
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The fool is happy that he knows no more.
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What if the foot, ordained the dust to tread, Or hand, to toil, aspired to be the head? What if the head, the eye, or ear repined to serve mere engines to the ruling mind?
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What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
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For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, his can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.
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All forms that perish other forms supply – like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, they rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part – there all the honor lies.
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Alexander Pope Inspiring Life Quotes
On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reason’s the card, but passion the gale.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, you lose it in the moment you detect.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Authors are partial to their wit
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The ruling passion, be it what it will, the ruling passion conquers reason still.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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The proper study of mankind is man.
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy – their own self— love.
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The difference is too nice; where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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From Nature’s chain whatever link you strike – tenth or ten thousandth – breaks the chain alike.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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If once right reason drives that cloud away, truth breaks upon us with resistless day.
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Blest who can unconcern’dly find, hours, days, and years slide soft away, in health of body, peace of mind
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Make use of every friend – and every foe.
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Alexander Pope Quotes
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
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‘Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
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No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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An honest man’s the noblest work of God.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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‘Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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Woman’s at best a contradiction still.
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At ev’ry word a reputation dies.
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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
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Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th’ observer’s sake.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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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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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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True politeness consists in being easy one’s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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The difference is too nice — Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.
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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.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Never was it given to mortal man — To lie so boldly as we women can.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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A cherub’s face, a reptile all the rest.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
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