Tag: Alexander Pope
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Alexander Pope
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Alexander Pope
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An honest man’s the noblest work of God.
Alexander Pope
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope
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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Alexander Pope
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.
Alexander Pope
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander Pope
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‘Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.
Alexander Pope
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
Alexander Pope