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Alexander Pope
All gardening is...
All gardening is landscape painting.
Source: Joseph Spence's 'Anecdotes'
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A wit with...
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
Source: The Dunciad, Bk iv. 90
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Ambition first sprung...
Ambition first sprung from your bless'd abodes;
The glorious fault of angels and of...
An excuse is...
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Act well your...
Act well your part; there all honor lies.
Source: In
All nature is...
All nature is but art unknown to thee,
All chance direction which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not...
As some to...
As some to church repair,
Not for the doctrine, but the music there.
Source: An...
And he whose...
And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad
It is not poetry, but prose run mad.
And all who...
And all who told it added something new,
And all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Alike reserved to...
Alike reserved to blame, or to commend,
A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend;
Dreading e'en fools, by...
As yet a...
As yet a child, not yet a fool to fame,
I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.
Ask you what...
Ask you what provocation I have had?
The strong antipathy of good to bad.
And hence one...
And hence one master-passion in the breast,
Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
Blest paper-credit! last...
Blest paper-credit! last and best supply!
That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
All crowd, who...
All crowd, who foremost shall be damned to fame.
Source: The Dunciad, Bk iii....
Beauties in vain...
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the...
Chaos of thought...
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused, or disabused;
Created half to rise, and...
Awake my St...
Awake my St John! Leave all meaner things
To low ambition, and the pride of kings.
Let us, since life can little...
But let a...
But let a lord once own the happy lines,
How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
An obstinate person...
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
Source: In