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And not a vanity is given in vain.
Topic: Vanity
Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 290)
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Here files of pins extend their shining rows,
Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.
Topic: Vanity
Source: Rape of the Lock (canto I, l. 137)
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
Topic: Vice
Source: Epilogue to Satires (dialogue I)
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated need but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Topic: Vice
Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 217)
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
Topic: Vice
Source: Horace (bk. II, ep. II, l. 216)
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We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms,
Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms.
Topic: Victory
Source: Horace
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But if
We have such another victory, we are undone.
Topic: Victory
Source: Horace
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix,
Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
Topic: Villainy
Source: Temple of Fame (l. 410)
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Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme,
The air-built castle, and the golden dream,
The maid's romantic wish, the chemist's flame,
And poet's vision of eternal fame.
Topic: Visions
Source: The Dunciad (bk. III, l. 9)
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
Topic: Vulgarity
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Weakness
Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 249)
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Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
Topic: Weakness
Source: Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 43)
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Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place.
Topic: Wealth
Source: Epistles of Horace (ep. I, bk. I, l. 103)
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What riches give us let us then inquire:
Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire.
Is this too little?
Topic: Wealth
Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 79)
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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
Topic: Wealth
Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 79)
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Destroy his fib, or sophistry--in vain!
The creature's at his dirty work again.
Topic: Wickedness
Source: Prologue to the Satires (l. 91)
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And binding nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will.
Topic: Will
Source: The Universal Prayer (st. 3)
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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews;
Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse;
Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay,
Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
Topic: Winter
Source: Ode to Winter (l. 85)
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms
Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms!
The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare,
But wonder how the devil they got there.
Topic: Wonders
Source: Prologue to the Satires (l. 169)
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather and prunello.
Topic: Worth
Source: Essay on Man (epistle IV, 203)
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Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.
Topic: Zeal
Source: Essay on Man (ep. 111, l. 261)
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I have more zeal than wit.
Topic: Zeal
Source: Imitations of Horace (bk. II, satire VI, l. 56)
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will,
And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
Topic: Zeal
Source: Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 185)
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Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon
the rights of others.
Topic: Zeal
Source: Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 185)
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
Topic: Zephyrs
Source: Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 366)
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Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.
Topic: Zephyrs
Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 42)
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die:
Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
Topic: Zephyrs
Source: Rape of the Lock (canto II, l. 50)
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe,
That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
Topic: Zephyrs
Source: Rape of the Lock (canto II, l. 58)
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The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death,
Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath.
Topic: Zephyrs
Source: Winter (l. 45)
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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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