Alexander Pope
English poet
Lived from: 1688 - 1744
Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom
Born: 21 may 1688 Died: 30 may 1744
Quotes 61 till 80 of 155.
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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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Know than this truth (enough for man to know): I virtue alone is happinea below.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, and censure freely who have written well.
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Let those teach others who themselves excel; I and censure freely, who have written well.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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