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Alexander Pope
Sir Plume, of...
Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain,
And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.
That true self-love...
That true self-love and social are the same;
That virtue only makes our bliss below;
And all our knowledge is,...
She moves a...
She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen.
Source: Homer's Iliad, III. 1
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Sure of their...
Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
Nor in the...
Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
Source: An Essay on Criticism.
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Slave to no...
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road,
But looks through nature up to nature's...
The mob of...
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
Source: Satires and Epistles of Horace...
Some praise at...
Some praise at morning what they blame at night;
But always think the last opinion...
The hidden harmony...
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Source:
-- Alexander Pope, (May...
Not to admire,...
Not to admire, is all the art I know
To make men happy, and to keep them so.
Some old men,...
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in...
The ruling passion,...
The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still.
The people's voice...
The people's voice is odd,
It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
Source:...
The hungry judges...
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
Order is Heaven's...
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed,
Some are, and must be, greater than the rest,
More rich, more...
The Muse but...
The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not Wife,
To help me through this long disease, my...
The world forgetting,...
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Source: Eloisa to Abelard.
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The scripture in...
The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of...
The many-headed monster...
The many-headed monster of the pit.
Source: Satires and Epistles of Horace...
Party-spirit . ....
Party-spirit . . . at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.