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For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
Government
Alexander Pope

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For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Insanity
Alexander Pope

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Health consists with temperance alone.
Health
Alexander Pope

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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Loyalty
Alexander Pope

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Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Character
Alexander Pope

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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Chastity
Alexander Pope

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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Forgiveness
Alexander Pope

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I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
Class
Alexander Pope

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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
Faith
Alexander Pope

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It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Judgment and Judges
Alexander Pope

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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Happiness
Alexander Pope

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
Self-knowledge
Alexander Pope

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

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Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Generosity
Alexander Pope

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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Men
Alexander Pope

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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Ambition
Alexander Pope

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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
Writers and Writing
Alexander Pope

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Most women have no characters at all.
Women
Alexander Pope

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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
Attitude
Alexander Pope

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

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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Reason
Alexander Pope

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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
Vengeance
Alexander Pope

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

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Passions are the gales of life.
Passion
Alexander Pope

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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Praise
Alexander Pope

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun