Poets heap Virtues, Painters Gems at will,
And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
(Epistle II: To A Lady (of The Characters Of Women))
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.Alexander Pope
That true self-love and social are the same That virtue only makes our bliss below And all our knowledge is, ourselves to know.
Alexander Pope
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Alexander Pope
Edward and Henry, now the boast of fame,
And virtuous Alfred, a more sacred name,
After a life of gen'rous toils endur'd,
The Gaul subdu'd, or property secur'd,
Ambition humbled, mighty cities storm'd,
Or laws establish'd, and the world reform'd;
Clos'd their long glories with a sigh, to find
Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
Alexander Pope
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
Alexander Pope
Ask you what provocation I have had The strong antipathy of good to bad.
Alexander Pope
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