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As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath,
Receives the lurking principle of death,
The younger disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
Topic: Disease
Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 133)
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But just disease to luxury succeeds,
And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
Topic: Disease
Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 165)
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
Topic: Dogs
Source: Epigrams--On the Collar of a Dog
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To be, contents his natural desire,
He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire;
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,
His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense
Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
Topic: Dogs
Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 109)
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than
of friends.
Topic: Dogs
Source: Letters to and from H. Cromwell, Esq.--Letter X
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
Topic: Doubt
Source: Rape of the Lock (canto V, l. 73)
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly,
When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky;
Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves,
When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
Topic: Doves
Source: Windsor Forest (l. 185)
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
Topic: Eagles
Source: Moral Essays--Epistle to Addison (l. 30)
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And solid pudding against empty praise.
Topic: Eating
Source: The Dunciad (bk. I, l. 54)
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"Pray take them, Sir,--Enough's a Feast;
Eat some, and pocket up the rest."
Topic: Eating
Source: First Book of Horace (ep. VII, l. 24)
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One solid dish his week-day meal affords,
An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's.
Topic: Eating
Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 447)
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"Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word,
And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
Topic: Eating
Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 461)
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"An't it please your Honour," quoth the Peasant,
"This same Desset is not so pleasant:
Give me again my hollow Tree,
A Crust of Bread, and Liberty."
Topic: Eating
Source: Second Book of Horace (last lines)
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
Topic: Echo
Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 306)
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'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest,
Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
Topic: Enjoyment
Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 79)
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue,
But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
Topic: Envy
Source: Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 266)
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave,
Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
Topic: Envy
Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 191)
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Some positive persisting fops we know,
Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;
But you with pleasure own your errors past,
And make each day a critique on the last.
Topic: Errors
Source: Essay on Criticism (pt. III, l. 9)
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Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be
disappointed.
Topic: Expectation
Source: in a letter to Gay
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above,
Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove?
Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings?
Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
Topic: Falcons
Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 53)
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When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day,
Fancy restores what vengeance snatch'd away.
Topic: Fancy
Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 225)
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The difference is as great between
The optics seeing as the objects seen.
All manners take a tincture from our own;
Or come discolor'd through out passions shown;
Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies,
Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
Topic: Fancy
Source: Moral Essays (ep. I, l. 31)
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Topic: Fashion
Source: None
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The glorious fault of angels and of gods.
Topic: Faults
Source: To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (l. 14)
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Topic: Fidelity
Source: Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 336)
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Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food,
And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Topic: Fidelity
Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 83)
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Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire.
Topic: Fire
Source: Epistle to Mrs. Teresa Blount, on her leaving the Town after the Coronation
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By flatterers besieged
And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
Topic: Flattery
Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 207)
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother,
Just as one beauty mortifies another.
Topic: Foppery
Source: Satire IV (l. 258)
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To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Topic: Forgiveness
Source: Essay on Criticism
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Topic: Forgiveness
Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 522)
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To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
Topic: Forgiveness
Source: None
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Topic: Forgiveness
Source: None
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Shall I, like Curtius, desperate in my zeal,
O'er head and ears plunge for the common weal?
Or rob Rome's ancient geese of all their glories,
And cackling save the monarchies of Tories?
Topic: Geese
Source: The Dunciad (bk. 1, l. 209)
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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose;
A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
Topic: Glory
Source: Second Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 300)
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows;
'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
Topic: Gold
Source: Moral Essay (ep. III, l. 21)
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Topic: Gossip
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: Gossip
Source: None
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And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.
Topic: Gossip
Source: None
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part,
And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
Topic: Grace
Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 152)
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
Topic: Gratitude
Source: Second Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 14)
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Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
Topic: Growth
Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 136)
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'Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd,
Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
Topic: Growth
Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 178)
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
Topic: Guilt
Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 230)
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
Topic: Haste
Source: Prologue to the Satires (l. 208)
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Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Topic: Haste
Source: Prologue to the Satires (l. 208)
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Health consists with Temperance alone.
Topic: Health
Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l.81)
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It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
Topic: Health
Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l.81)
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land?
All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
Topic: Help
Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 264)
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