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Condemned whole years in absence to deplore,
And image charms he must behold no more.
Topic: Absence
Source: Eloise to Abelard (l. 361)
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Is not absence death to those who love?
Topic: Absence
Source: None
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A long, exact, and serious comedy;
In every scene some moral let it teach,
And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
Topic: Acting
Source: Epistle to Miss Blount--With the Works of Voiture (l. 22)
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There still remains to mortify a wit
The many-headed monster of the pit.
Topic: Acting
Source: Horace (ep. I, bk. II, l. 30)
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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 scene, and be what they behold--
For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage.
Topic: Acting
Source: Prologue to Addison's Cato (l. 1)
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Your scene precariously subsists too long,
On French translation and Italian song.
Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the stage;
Be justly warm'd with your own native rage.
Topic: Acting
Source: Prologue to Addison's Cato (l. 42)
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For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
Topic: Admiration
Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 391)
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Topic: Admiration
Source: None
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense;
For the worst avarice is that of sense.
Topic: Advice
Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 578)
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil,
We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
Topic: Agriculture
Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 13)
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Our rural ancestors with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulg'd the day that hous'd their annual grain,
With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
Topic: Agriculture
Source: Second Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 241)
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Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand,
And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
Topic: Agriculture
Source: Windsor Forest (l. 39)
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The starving chemist in his golden views
Supremely blest.
Topic: Alchemy
Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 269)
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms,
Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms,
Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
Topic: Ambition
Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 157)
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise.
By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies?
Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys,
And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
Topic: Ambition
Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 74)
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards?
Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
Topic: Ancestry
Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 215)
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise;
Those best can fear reproof who merit praise.
Topic: Anger
Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 582)
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What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade
Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
Topic: Apparitions
Source: Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (l. 1)
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws,
And sit attentive to his own applause.
Topic: Applause
Source: Prologue to the Satires (l. 207)
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,
Say, is not absence death to those who love?
Topic: Autumn
Source: Pastorals--Autumn (l. 27)
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Thus sung the shepherds till th' approach of night,
The skies yet blushing with departing light,
When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade,
And the low sun had lengthened every shade.
Topic: Autumn
Source: Pastorals--Autumn (last lines)
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true
From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
Topic: Bees
Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, 219)
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray,
With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
Topic: Birds
Source: Pastorals--Spring (l. 23)
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Topic: Birds
Source: Pastorals--Spring (l. 23)
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
Topic: Blame
Source: None
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The blest to-day is as completely so,
As who began a thousand years ago.
Topic: Blessings
Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 75)
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail,
Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Topic: Boating
Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 177)
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Topic: Boldness
Source: None
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe
Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
Topic: Bribery
Source: Epilogue to Satire (dialogue II, l. 46)
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold;
Esteem and love were never to be sold.
Topic: Bribery
Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 187)
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Ask you what provocation I have had?
The strong antipathy of good to bad.
Topic: Cause
Source: Epilogue to Satires (dialogue 2, l. 205)
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In Faith and Hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is charity.
Topic: Charity
Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 307)
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Of fight or fly,
This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
Topic: Choice
Source: Homer's Odyssey (bk. XXII, l. 79)
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Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart.
Topic: Christianity
Source: Moral Essay (ep. II, l. 68)
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n,
Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n;
But such plain roofs as Piety could raise,
And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
Topic: Churches
Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 137)
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Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame,
Will never mark the marble with his Name.
Topic: Churches
Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 285)
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To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
Topic: Churches
Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 285)
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing;
Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
Topic: Circumstance
Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 57)
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it
Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Topic: Clouds
Source: Moral Essays (ep. 2, l. 19)
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Form'd by thy converse, happily steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
Topic: Conversation
Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 379)
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
Topic: Cookery
Source: Satires--Horace (epistle II, bk. II, l. 85)
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At length corruption, like a general flood
(So long by watchful ministers withstood),
Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on,
Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
Topic: Corruption
Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 135)
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Topic: Courtesy
Source: None
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Topic: Criticism
Source: None
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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Topic: Curiosity
Source: None
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Topic: Curiosity
Source: None
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Others import yet nobler arts from France,
Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
Topic: Dancing
Source: The Dunciad (bk. IV, l. 597)
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In death a hero, as in life a friend!.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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In cold December fragrant chaplets blow,
And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
Topic: December
Source: The Dunciad (bk. I, l. 77)
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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Topic: Devil
Source: None
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