Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.


Alexander Pope

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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
ALEXANDER POPE
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
ALEXANDER POPE
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;And all who told it, added something new,And all who hear...
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
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Philos...
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part ...
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Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And h...
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It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
ALEXANDER POPE
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays til...
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Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?
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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
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Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
ALEXANDER POPE
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPE
Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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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 midd...
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But if We have such another victory, we are undone.
ALEXANDER POPE
The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ...
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Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
ALEXANDER POPE
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ALEXANDER POPE
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Most women have no characters at all.
ALEXANDER POPE
Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil...
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
ALEXANDER POPE
Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T...
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Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a...
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
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In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not t...
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
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To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by prece...
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake...
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From pride, from pride, our very reas
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The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
ALEXANDER POPE
All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
ALEXANDER POPE
For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Die and endow a college or a cat.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Placed on this...
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A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow d...
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A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
There sha...
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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fix
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
ALEXANDER POPE
When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,
To taste awhile the pleasures of a court;
In various talk...
ALEXANDER POPE
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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Act well your part; there all honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
ALEXANDER POPE
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
ALEXANDER POPE
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
ALEXANDER POPE
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
ALEXANDER POPE
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
ALEXANDER POPE
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
ALEXANDER POPE
Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
ALEXANDER POPE
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPE
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE
It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; ALEXANDER POPE
By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
ALEXANDER POPE
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
ALEXANDER POPE
Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged th...
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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more ...
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Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy...
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
ALEXANDER POPE
An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
ALEXANDER POPE
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
ALEXANDER POPE
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing ...
ALEXANDER POPE
Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! l...
ALEXANDER POPE
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
ALEXANDER POPE
On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
ALEXANDER POPE
Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
ALEXANDER POPE
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
ALEXANDER POPE
The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.
ALEXANDER POPE
Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
ALEXANDER POPE
Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulg'd the d...
ALEXANDER POPE
In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
ALEXANDER POPE
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
ALEXANDER POPE
Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
ALEXANDER POPE
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
ALEXANDER POPE
To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
ALEXANDER POPE
Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name.
ALEXANDER POPE
No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such...
ALEXANDER POPE
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE
There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
ALEXANDER POPE
Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
ALEXANDER POPE
Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
ALEXANDER POPE
The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
ALEXANDER POPE
Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye...
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Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deep...
ALEXANDER POPE
Accept a miracle; instead of wit,-- See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
ALEXANDER POPE
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
ALEXANDER POPE
In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. P...
ALEXANDER POPE
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
ALEXANDER POPE
Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
ALEXANDER POPE
Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
ALEXANDER POPE
Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream, ...
ALEXANDER POPE
In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
ALEXANDER POPE
What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.
ALEXANDER POPE
No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.
ALEXANDER POPE
See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
ALEXANDER POPE
Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
ALEXANDER POPE
One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one ...
ALEXANDER POPE
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE
Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
ALEXANDER POPE
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that ...
ALEXANDER POPE
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
ALEXANDER POPE
Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
ALEXANDER POPE
How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
ALEXANDER POPE
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
ALEXANDER POPE
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.
ALEXANDER POPE
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE
What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
ALEXANDER POPE
Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
ALEXANDER POPE
And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
ALEXANDER POPE
Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.
ALEXANDER POPE
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
ALEXANDER POPE
The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death, Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath.
ALEXANDER POPE
I have more zeal than wit.
ALEXANDER POPE
Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.
ALEXANDER POPE
The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
ALEXANDER POPE
Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where o...
ALEXANDER POPE
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
ALEXANDER POPE
For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
ALEXANDER POPE
Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.
ALEXANDER POPE
At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall de...
ALEXANDER POPE
You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
ALEXANDER POPE
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.
ALEXANDER POPE
Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
ALEXANDER POPE
Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on othe...
ALEXANDER POPE