Alexander Pope

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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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

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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around! ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Men would be angels, angels would be gods. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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