The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
More Quotes from Alexander Pope:
In Men, we various Ruling Passions find;In Women, two almost divide the kind;
Those, only fix'd, they first or last obey,
The Love of Pleasure, and the Love of Sway.
Alexander Pope
To make mankind in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold.
Alexander Pope
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great.
Alexander Pope
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me dye;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lye.
Alexander Pope
Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
Alexander Pope
Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Alexander Pope
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