Alexander Pope Quotes, Judgment Quotes, Wit Quotes

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.

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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it

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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.

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A perfect woman's but a softer man.

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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.

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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.

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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.

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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.

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Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.

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