Respecting man, whatever wrong we call,
May, must be right, as relative to all.
(An Essay On Man In Four Epistles: Epistle 1)
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Some judge of Authors' Names, not Works, and thenNor praise nor blame the Writings, but the Men.
Alexander Pope
Some are bewilder'd in the Maze of Schools,
And some made Coxcombs Nature meant but Fools.
Alexander Pope
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Alexander Pope
Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Alexander Pope
Virtuous and vicious everyone must be few in extremes, but all in degree.
Alexander Pope
How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be.
Alexander Pope
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