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Alexander Pope
True friendship's laws...
True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting...
We bring to...
We bring to one dead level ev'ry mind.
Source: The Dunciad, Bk iv. 268
--...
When man's whole...
When man's whole frame is obvious to a flea.
Source: The Dunciad, IV
--...
When much dispute...
When much dispute has past,
We find our tenets just the same as last.
Source: In...
Tis hard to...
Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill.
Unlearn'd, he knew...
Unlearn'd, he knew no schoolman's subtle art,
No language, but the language of the...
Where'er you find...
Where'er you find `the cooling western breeze',
In the next line, it `whispers through the trees':
If crystal...
Who shall decide...
Who shall decide when doctors disagree?
Source: Moral Essays, III
-- Alexander...
While expletives their...
While expletives their feeble aid do join,
And ten low words oft creep in one dull...
Trust not yourself,...
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
We think our...
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow;
Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
Whether you choose...
Whether you choose Cervantes' serious air,
Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' armchair.
Whoever thinks a...
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall...
Who breaks a...
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
Source: Lord Hervey, in Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot...
What's fame? a...
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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...
While pensive poets...
While pensive poets painful vigils keep
Sleepless themselves to give their readers...
Woman's at best...
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
Source: Moral Essays, II
-- Alexander...
Who sees with...
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,
Atoms or systems into ruin...
When men grow...
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's...