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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance. - Alexander Pope

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever. - Alexander Pope

On wrongs swift vengeance waits. - Alexander Pope

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use. - Alexander Pope

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. - Alexander Pope

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor. - Alexander Pope

To err is human; to forgive, divine. - Alexander Pope

The world forgetting, by the world forgot. - Alexander Pope

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. - Alexander Pope

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. - Alexander Pope

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. - Alexander Pope

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. - Alexander Pope

Health consists with temperance alone. - Alexander Pope

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. - Alexander Pope

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind. - Alexander Pope

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. - Alexander Pope

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. - Alexander Pope

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. - Alexander Pope

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause. - Alexander Pope

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can. - Alexander Pope

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