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“And die of nothing but a rage to live”

Alexander Pope Moral Essays

Variant: You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
Source: Moral Essays

“Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.”

Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism

Source: An Essay on Criticism

“I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”

"On the Collar of a Dog".

“Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.”

“Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.”

“Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach.”

Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism

Source: An Essay on Criticism

“An honest man's the noblest work of God”

Alexander Pope An Essay on Man

Source: An Essay on Man

“This long disease, my life.”

Source: Epistles and Satires of Alexander Pope

“Whatever is, is right.”

Alexander Pope An Essay on Man

Source: An Essay on Man

“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded”

“What dire offence from amorous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things!”

Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock

Canto I, line 1.
Source: The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)

“chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.”

Alexander Pope An Essay on Man

Source: An Essay on Man

“Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long Absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: Absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.”

Letter, written in collaboration with Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, to Jonathan Swift, December 14, 1725.

“There, take (says Justice), take ye each a shell:
We thrive at Westminster on fools like you;
'T was a fat oyster,—live in peace,—adieu.”

Reported in The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. John Butt, sixth edition (Yale University Press, 1970), p. 832: "Verbatim from Boileau", written c. 1740, published 1741.. Compare: "Tenez voilà", dit-elle, "à chacun une écaille, Des sottises d'autrui nous vivons au Palais; Messieurs, l'huître étoit bonne. Adieu. Vivez en paix", Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux, Epître II. (à M. l'Abbé des Roches).

“Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were.”

Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock

Canto III, line 46.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)

“Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd,
But as the world, harmoniously confus'd,
Where order in variety we see,
And where, though all things differ, all agree.”

Alexander Pope book Windsor Forest

Source: Windsor Forest (1713), Line 13.

“To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.”

Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)

“Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.”

"The Wife of Bath her Prologue, from Chaucer" (c.1704, published 1713), line 369.

“I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.”

Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)

“And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.”

Source: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 57.