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Engrave this Quote Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;And all who told it, added something new,And all who heard it, made Enlargements too,In evry Ear it spread, on evry Tongue it grew.
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-Alexander Pope
Engrave this Quote See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before,
Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.
Physic of Metaphysic begs defence,
And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense!
See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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Absence
Engrave this Quote Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
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Action(s)
Engrave this Quote Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
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Admiration
Engrave this Quote Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Age
Engrave this Quote Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill:
walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on,
and shoves you from the stage:
leave such to trifle with more grace and ease,
whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.
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Ambition
Engrave this Quote Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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America
Engrave this Quote We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
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Apathy
Engrave this Quote In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fix
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-Alexander Pope, Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 101.
Argument & Debate
Engrave this Quote True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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Engrave this Quote When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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Art
Engrave this Quote The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
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Attitude
Engrave this Quote Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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Authors & Writing
Engrave this Quote Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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Engrave this Quote Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
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Engrave this Quote Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Engrave this Quote True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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Beauty
Engrave this Quote Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Belief
Engrave this Quote Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Change
Engrave this Quote In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not the first by whom the New are try
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-Alexander Pope, Essay On Criticism
Engrave this Quote Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
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Chaos
Engrave this Quote Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all.
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Character
Engrave this Quote Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
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Chastity
Engrave this Quote How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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Children
Engrave this Quote Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Class
Engrave this Quote I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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Credit
Engrave this Quote Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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Criticism
Engrave this Quote Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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Curiosity
Engrave this Quote A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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Death
Engrave this Quote Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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Education
Engrave this Quote Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Evil
Engrave this Quote Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
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Exaggeration
Engrave this Quote Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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Excuses
Engrave this Quote An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
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Eyes
Engrave this Quote Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
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Faith
Engrave this Quote I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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Fame
Engrave this Quote What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Fanaticism
Engrave this Quote The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Father
Engrave this Quote We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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Fools, Foolishness
Engrave this Quote Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.
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Forgiveness
Engrave this Quote How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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Engrave this Quote To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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-Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Criticism"
Generosity
Engrave this Quote Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Gossip
Engrave this Quote And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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Government
Engrave this Quote For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
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Happiness
Engrave this Quote Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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Engrave this Quote Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Hate
Engrave this Quote To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Health
Engrave this Quote Health consists with temperance alone.
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Honesty
Engrave this Quote An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Honor
Engrave this Quote Act well your part; there all honor lies.
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Humanity
Engrave this Quote If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Humility
Engrave this Quote No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Humor
Engrave this Quote True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
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Engrave this Quote Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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-Alexander Pope, "Essay on Criticism"
Identity
Engrave this Quote Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Inheritance
Engrave this Quote Die and endow a college or a cat.
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Engrave this Quote But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.
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Insanity
Engrave this Quote For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Inspirational
Engrave this Quote You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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Judging, Judgment
Engrave this Quote It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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Justice
Engrave this Quote The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Law
Engrave this Quote Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
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Learning
Engrave this Quote A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again.
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Engrave this Quote A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
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-Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism, lines 215-218
Literary
Engrave this Quote Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,
To taste awhile the pleasures of a court;
In various talk th' instuctive hours they past,
Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;
One speaks the glory of the British Queen,
And one describes a charming Indian screen
A third interprets motions, looks and eyes;
At every word a reputation dies.
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-Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
Loyalty
Engrave this Quote Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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Mankind, Man
Engrave this Quote Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise and rudely great.
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-Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man
Manners
Engrave this Quote True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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Marriage
Engrave this Quote They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Memory
Engrave this Quote Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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Engrave this Quote Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Men
Engrave this Quote Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Engrave this Quote Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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Mercy
Engrave this Quote Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.
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Mistakes
Engrave this Quote A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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Morals
Engrave this Quote From pride, from pride, our very reas
Poetical Works Alexander Pope. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.
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-Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (Fr. Epistle I)
Motivational
Engrave this Quote Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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Nature
Engrave this Quote All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Observation
Engrave this Quote One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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Opinion
Engrave this Quote An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Order
Engrave this Quote Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Passion
Engrave this Quote The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Engrave this Quote Passions are the gales of life.
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Engrave this Quote Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Perception
Engrave this Quote All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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-Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, 1711
Politics
Engrave this Quote I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Praise
Engrave this Quote Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Engrave this Quote Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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Pride
Engrave this Quote At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Engrave this Quote Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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-Alexander Pope
Engrave this Quote Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity
Engrave this Quote To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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-Alexander Pope
Progress
Engrave this Quote Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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Reading
Engrave this Quote The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own tongue still edifies his ears,
And always list'ning to himself appears.
All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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Reason
Engrave this Quote On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Revenge
Engrave this Quote On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Satire
Engrave this Quote Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,
A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.
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-Alexander Pope, Prologue to Satires
Science
Engrave this Quote One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Sex
Engrave this Quote There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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Strangers
Engrave this Quote By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
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Thanksgiving
Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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Tyranny
Engrave this Quote Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Virtue
Engrave this Quote Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
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Wealth
Engrave this Quote But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Women
Engrave this Quote Most women have no characters at all.
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Worth
Engrave this Quote Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Youth
Engrave this Quote Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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