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 never mentions hell to ears polite.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Moral Essays, Epistle iv, Line 149
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- T is education forms the common mind:
Just as the twig is bent the tree 's inclined.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle... - 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... - Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven,
And though no science,
fairly worth the seven. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)... - She who ne'er answers till a husband cools,
Or if she rules him,
never shows she rules. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)... - Not always actions show the man; we find
Who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle... - And mistress of herself though china fall.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line... - But thousands die without or this or that,--
Die, and endow a college or a cat.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle... - Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line... - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung.
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Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle...
