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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
Alexander Pope
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
Alexander Pope
The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
Alexander Pope
The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
Alexander Pope
Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
Alexander Pope
Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
Alexander Pope
Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
Alexander Pope
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Alexander Pope
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
Alexander Pope
Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
Alexander Pope
So upright Quakers please both man and God.
Alexander Pope
Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
Alexander Pope
