Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope: True friendship's laws...

Alexander Pope: True friendship's laws...

True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting...

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Alexander Pope: We bring to...

Alexander Pope: We bring to...

We bring to one dead level ev'ry mind.

Source: The Dunciad, Bk iv. 268
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Alexander Pope: When man's whole...

Alexander Pope: When man's whole...

When man's whole frame is obvious to a flea.

Source: The Dunciad, IV
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Alexander Pope: When much dispute...

Alexander Pope: When much dispute...

When much dispute has past,
We find our tenets just the same as last.


Source: In...

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Alexander Pope: Tis hard to...

Alexander Pope: Tis hard to...

Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill.


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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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Alexander Pope: Where'er you find...

Alexander Pope: Where'er you find...

Where'er you find `the cooling western breeze',
In the next line, it `whispers through the trees':
If crystal...

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Alexander Pope: Who shall decide...

Alexander Pope: Who shall decide...

Who shall decide when doctors disagree?

Source: Moral Essays, III
-- Alexander...

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Alexander Pope: While expletives their...

Alexander Pope: While expletives their...

While expletives their feeble aid do join,
And ten low words oft creep in one dull...

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Alexander Pope: Trust not yourself,...

Alexander Pope: Trust not yourself,...

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

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Alexander Pope: We think our...

Alexander Pope: We think our...

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow;
Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.


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Alexander Pope: Whether you choose...

Alexander Pope: Whether you choose...

Whether you choose Cervantes' serious air,
Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' armchair.


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Alexander Pope: Whoever thinks a...

Alexander Pope: Whoever thinks a...

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall...

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Alexander Pope: Who breaks a...

Alexander Pope: Who breaks a...

Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

Source: Lord Hervey, in Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot...

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Alexander Pope: What's fame? a...

Alexander Pope: What's fame? a...

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

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Alexander Pope: Where'er you walk,...

Alexander Pope: Where'er you walk,...

Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade,
Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade:
Where'er you...

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Alexander Pope: While pensive poets...

Alexander Pope: While pensive poets...

While pensive poets painful vigils keep
Sleepless themselves to give their readers...

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Alexander Pope: Woman's at best...

Alexander Pope: Woman's at best...

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Source: Moral Essays, II
-- Alexander...

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Alexander Pope: Who sees with...

Alexander Pope: Who sees with...

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,
Atoms or systems into ruin...

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Alexander Pope: When men grow...

Alexander Pope: When men grow...

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's...

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