Alexander Pope Quotes, Wit Quotes

I have more zeal than wit.

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I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.

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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.

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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.

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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.

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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.

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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.

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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.

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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.

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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!

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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.

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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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