John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Alexander Pope. (1688–1744) (continued) |
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| Never elated when one man ’s oppress’d; Never dejected while another ’s bless’d. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 323. |
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| Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God. 1 |
| Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 331. |
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| Form’d by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. 2 |
| Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 379. |
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| Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph and partake the gale? |
| Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 385. |
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| Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 390. |
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| That virtue only makes our bliss below, 3 And all our knowledge is ourselves to know. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 397. |
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| To observations which ourselves we make, We grow more partial for th’ observer’s sake. |
| Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 11. |
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| Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. |
| Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 20. |
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| In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. |
| Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 39. |
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| Not always actions show the man; we find Who does a kindness is not therefore kind. |
| Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 109. |
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| 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. |
| Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 115. |
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| ’T is from high life high characters are drawn; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. |
| Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 135. |
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| ’T is education forms the common mind: Just as the twig is bent the tree ’s inclined. |
| Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 149. |
| Note 1. See Bolingbroke, Quotation 3. [back] |
| Note 2. See Dryden, Quotation 64. [back] |
| Note 3. ’T is virtue makes the bliss where’er we dwell.—William Collins: Oriental Eclogues, i. line 5. [back] |