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• Rise, honest muse! and sing The Man of Ross.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle iii, Line 250...
• Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave
  Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,-- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies....
• In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 39...
• To observations which ourselves we make, We grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 11...
• Extremes in Nature equal good produce; Extremes in man concur to general use.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle iii, Line 161...
• To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle iv, Line 149...
• Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle iii, Line 285...
• Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 172...
• Odious! in woollen! 't would a saint provoke," Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 246...