True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.


Alexander Pope

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ONE
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It was good to have an easy one.
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Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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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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Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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But if We have such another victory, we are undone.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
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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.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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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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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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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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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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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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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.
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All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast
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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.
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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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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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Health consists with temperance alone.
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Act well your part; there all honor lies.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
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For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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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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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.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.
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In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
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Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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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.
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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...
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Accept a miracle; instead of wit,-- See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
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Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.
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No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
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One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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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