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Alexander Pope: A brain of...

Alexander Pope: A brain of...

A brain of feathers and a heart of lead.

Source: The Dunciad, Bk ii. 44
--...

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Alexander Pope: Act well your...

Alexander Pope: Act well your...

Act well your part; there all honor lies.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Alexander Pope: And he whose...

Alexander Pope: And he whose...

And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad
It is not poetry, but prose run mad.


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Alexander Pope: Charms strike the...

Alexander Pope: Charms strike the...

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Source: The Rape of the Lock, V....

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Alexander Pope: And love th'...

Alexander Pope: And love th'...

And love th' offender, yet detest th' offence.

Source: Eloisa to Abelard, 192
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Alexander Pope: Chaste to her...

Alexander Pope: Chaste to her...

Chaste to her Husband, frank to all beside,
A teeming Mistress, but a barren Bride.


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Alexander Pope: Do good by...

Alexander Pope: Do good by...

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Source: Epilogue to the Satires,...

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Alexander Pope: Is there a...

Alexander Pope: Is there a...

Is there a parson, much bemused in beer,
A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer,
A clerk foredoomed his father's soul...

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Alexander Pope: Fired that the...

Alexander Pope: Fired that the...

Fired that the house reject him, `'Sdeath I'll print it,
And shame the fools.'


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Alexander Pope: Never elated when...

Alexander Pope: Never elated when...

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

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Alexander Pope: On wrongs swift...

Alexander Pope: On wrongs swift...

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Alexander Pope: The people's voice...

Alexander Pope: The people's voice...

The people's voice is odd,
It is, and it is not, the voice of God.


Source:...

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Alexander Pope: The Muse but...

Alexander Pope: The Muse but...

The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not Wife,
To help me through this long disease, my...

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Alexander Pope: The right divine...

Alexander Pope: The right divine...

The right divine of kings to govern wrong.

Source: The Dunciad, IV
-- Alexander...

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Alexander Pope: There goes a...

Alexander Pope: There goes a...

There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said,
Old fish at table, but young flesh in...

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Alexander Pope: Unlearn'd, he knew...

Alexander Pope: Unlearn'd, he knew...

Unlearn'd, he knew no schoolman's subtle art,
No language, but the language of the...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A city clerk,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A city clerk,...

A city clerk, but gently born and bred.

Source: Sea Dreams, 1
-- Alfred, Lord...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Be near me...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Be near me...

Be near me when my light is low,
When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick
And tingle; and the heart is...

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Ogden Nash: I have an...

Ogden Nash: I have an...

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to...

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Ogden Nash: Bankers are just...

Ogden Nash: Bankers are just...

Bankers are just like everyone else only richer.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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