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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor. — Alexander Pope

The soul's calm sunshine and heartfelt joy. — Alexander Pope

From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king. — Alexander Pope

The man that loves and laughs must sure do well. — Alexander Pope

For when success a lover's toil attends,
Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends — Alexander Pope

A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill. — Alexander Pope

Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind. — Alexander Pope

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear. — Alexander Pope

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. — Alexander Pope

Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one. — Alexander Pope

O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize,
And make my tongue victorious as her eyes. — Alexander Pope

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone. — Alexander Pope

Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! — Alexander Pope

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? — Alexander Pope

Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace
To spin, to weep, and cully human race. — Alexander Pope

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best. — Alexander Pope

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair. — Alexander Pope

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. — Alexander Pope

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me. — Alexander Pope

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. — Alexander Pope

O let us still the secret joy partake,
To follow virtue even for virtue's sake. — Alexander Pope

Intrepid then, o'er seas and lands he flew:
Europe he saw, and Europe saw him too. — Alexander Pope

But why insult the poor, affront the great?'
A knave's a knave, to me, in every state. — Alexander Pope

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know. — Alexander Pope

A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest. — Alexander Pope

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. — Alexander Pope

Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board. — Alexander Pope

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy,
The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy,
Is virtue's prize. — Alexander Pope

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. — Alexander Pope

In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend. — Alexander Pope

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed. — Alexander Pope

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home. — Alexander Pope

The villain's censure is extorted praise. — Alexander Pope

To err is human; to forgive divine.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can. — Alexander Pope

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie. — Alexander Pope

An honest man's the noblest work of God — Alexander Pope

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope

What bosom beast not in his country's cause? — Alexander Pope

And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. — Alexander Pope

The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery. — Alexander Pope

For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. — Alexander Pope

A perfect woman's but a softer man. — Alexander Pope

Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew. — Alexander Pope

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. — Alexander Pope

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death. — Alexander Pope

Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies. — Alexander Pope

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. — Alexander Pope

The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God. — Alexander Pope

But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost! — Alexander Pope

In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound. — Alexander Pope

And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God? — Alexander Pope

All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven. — Alexander Pope

All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace. — Alexander Pope

Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven. — Alexander Pope

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, Let Newton be! and all was light. — Alexander Pope

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. — Alexander Pope

The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain. — Alexander Pope

It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be,' restored the status quo. — John Collings Squire

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them. — Alexander Pope

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. — Alexander Pope

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. — Alexander Pope

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers. — Alexander Pope

And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air. — Alexander Pope

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows. — Alexander Pope

All this dread order break- for whom? for thee?
Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety! — Alexander Pope

Wit and judgment often are at strife. — Alexander Pope

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best. — Alexander Pope

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. — Alexander Pope

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last. — Alexander Pope

The lot of man - to suffer and to die. — Alexander Pope

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

The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. — Alexander Pope

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind. — Alexander Pope

How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine. — Alexander Pope

Every professional was once an amateur. — Alexander Pope

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. — Alexander Pope

Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. — Alexander Pope

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet. — Alexander Pope

From Nature's chain whatever link you strike,
Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. — Alexander Pope

Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid. — Alexander Pope

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person. — Alexander Pope

Woman's at best a contradiction still. — Alexander Pope

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, tuned the English tongue. — Harold Bloom

Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust. — Alexander Pope

The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are? — Alexander Pope

Then say not man's imperfect, Heav'n in fault;. Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought. — Alexander Pope

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. — Alexander Pope

Never elated while one man's oppress'd;
Never dejected while another's blessed. — Alexander Pope

The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen. — Alexander Pope

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. — Alexander Pope

Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name. — Alexander Pope

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense. — Alexander Pope

No craving void left aching in the soul. — Alexander Pope

The laughers are a majority. — Alexander Pope

Be sure yourself and your own reach to know How far your genius taste and learning go. — Alexander Pope

If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn? — Alexander Pope

Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well? — Alexander Pope

In vain sedate reflections we would make
When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. — Alexander Pope