Alexander Pope Quotes, Sick Quotes, Secret Quotes

The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

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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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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.

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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.

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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.

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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.

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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.

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While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.

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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

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