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Results of search for Author: Alexander Pope - Page 1 of 3
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Results from Cole's Quotables:

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet
To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
To err is human, to forgive divine.
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Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), An Essay on Criticism
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)

Results from Poor Man's College:

The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.
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Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
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.
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Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
Tis education forms the common mind;
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), Moral Essays, Epis, I, Line 149
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