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Honor
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Act well your part; there all honor lies.
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Humanity
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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.
-Alexander Pope
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Humility
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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.
-Alexander Pope
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Humor
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
-Alexander Pope
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
-Alexander Pope, "Essay on Criticism"
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Identity
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Inheritance
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Die and endow a college or a cat.
-Alexander Pope
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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.
-Alexander Pope
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Insanity
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For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
-Alexander Pope
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Inspirational
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
-Alexander Pope
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Judging, Judgment
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It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
-Alexander Pope
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Justice
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Law
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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
-Alexander Pope
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Learning
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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.
-Alexander Pope
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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.
-Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism, lines 215-218
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Literary
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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.
-Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
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Loyalty
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
-Alexander Pope
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Mankind, Man
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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.
-Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man
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Manners
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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.
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Marriage
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
-Alexander Pope
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Memory
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
-Alexander Pope
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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!
-Alexander Pope
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Men
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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
-Alexander Pope
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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.
-Alexander Pope
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Mercy
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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.
-Alexander Pope
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Books by and about Alexander Pope