Thus unlamented pass the proud away,
The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day!
(Elegy To The Memory Of An Unfortunate Lady)
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Order is natures first law.Alexander Pope
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
Alexander Pope
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today,
Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
Alexander Pope
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
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