142 Quotations by Alexander Pope
- 21. Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
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- 22. Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
- 23. Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
- 24. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
- 25. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
- 26. Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
- 27. Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
- 28. But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wi ...
- 29. But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
- 30. But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heav ...
- 31. By foreign hands thy humble grave (is) adorned: by strangers honored, by strangers mourned.
- 32. Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
- 33. Curse on all laws but those that love has made.
- 34. Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
- 35. Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue,
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- 36. False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ...
- 37. Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
- 38. Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
- 39. Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
- 40. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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