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I was not born for courts and great affairs,
but I pay my debts, believe and say my...
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
I am His Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me sir, whose dog are you?
Source: On...
Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore;
Full well they merit all they feel, and more:
Unaw'd by precepts, human...
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Source: Epilogue to the Satires,...
If, presume not to God to scan;
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle...
Line after line my gushing eyes o'erflow,
Led through a sad variety of woe.
Is there a parson, much bemused in beer,
A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer,
A clerk foredoomed his father's soul...
Let standard-authors, thus, like trophies borne,
Appear more glorious as more hacked and...
Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
Source: letter to...
In quibbles angel and archangel join,
And God the Father turns a school divine.
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in,...
Like following life through creatures you dissect,
You lose it in the moment you...
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restor'd;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets...
Fired that the house reject him, `'Sdeath I'll print it,
And shame the fools.'
In wit a man; simplicity a child.
Source: Epitaph on Mr. Gay.
-- Alexander Pope,...
Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Source: In
Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous...
Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
Fondly we think we honour merit then,
When we but praise ourselves in other men.