Alexander Pope Quotes, Rags Quotes, Ruffles Quotes

Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!

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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.

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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

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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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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

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The zeal of fools offends at any time.

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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.

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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

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