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Alexander Pope
In quibbles angel...
In quibbles angel and archangel join,
And God the Father turns a school divine.
Lulled in the...
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in,...
Like following life...
Like following life through creatures you dissect,
You lose it in the moment you...
Lo! thy dread...
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restor'd;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets...
Fired that the...
Fired that the house reject him, `'Sdeath I'll print it,
And shame the fools.'
In wit a...
In wit a man; simplicity a child.
Source: Epitaph on Mr. Gay.
-- Alexander Pope,...
Men dream of...
Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Source: In
Many people are...
Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous...
Never elated when...
Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
Fondly we think...
Fondly we think we honour merit then,
When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Know then thyself,...
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
Men, some to...
Men, some to business, some to pleasure take;
But every woman is at heart a rake.
Most authors steal...
Most authors steal their works, or buy.
Source: In
No creature smarts...
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
Source: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot.
--...
Has she no...
Has she no faults then (Envy says), Sir?
Yes she has one, I must aver;
When all the world conspires to praise...
Learn from the...
Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
Source: Essay on Man.
--...
Now lap-dogs give...
Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake,
And sleepless lovers, just at twelve,...
Nature and Nature's...
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said 'Let Newton be!' and all was light.
Not chaos-like, together...
Not chaos-like, together crushed and bruised,
But, as the world harmoniously confused:
Where order in variety we...
Heav'n, as its...
Heav'n, as its purest gold, by tortures tried;
The saint sustained it, but the woman...