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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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-Alexander Pope
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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-Alexander Pope
Apathy
Engrave this Quote 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.
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-Alexander Pope, Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 101.
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’d,
Nor yet the last to lay the Old aside.
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-Alexander Pope, Essay On Criticism
Forgiveness
Engrave this Quote "To err is human; to forgive, divine."
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-Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Criticism"
Humor
Engrave this Quote "Wit is the lowest form of humor."
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-Alexander Pope, "Essay on Criticism"
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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-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
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
Morals
Engrave this Quote From pride, from pride, our very reas’ning springs;
Account for moral, as for nat’ral things:
Why charge we Heav’n in those, in these acquit?
In both, to reason right is to submit.

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)
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
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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-Alexander Pope
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"
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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-Alexander Pope
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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-Alexander Pope





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