Alexander Pope Quotes, Men Quotes, Proud Quotes

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.

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The proper study of Mankind is Man.

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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.

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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

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Whatever is, is right.

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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

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