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Alexander Pope
To make mankind...
To make mankind in conscious virtue bold,
Live o'er each scene, and be what they...
To rest, the...
To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite,
Who never mentions hell to ears polite.
What beck'ning ghost,...
What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade
Invites my steps, and points to yonder...
Virtuous and vicious...
Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
Source:...
Teach me to...
Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to...
True disputants are...
True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
Two purposes in...
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
What dire offence...
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial...
Waller was smooth;...
Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join
The varying verse, the full-resounding line,
The long majestic...
Ten censure wrong,...
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
Source: In
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.