In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold;
Alike fantastic, if too new, or old:
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Alexander Pope

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Then most our trouble still when most admired,
And still the more we give, the more required;
Whose fame with pains we guard, but lose with ease,
Sure some to vex, but never all to please.

Alexander Pope

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So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try,
Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky;
Th'eternal snows appear already past,
And the first clouds and mountains seem the last:
But those attain'd, we tremble to survey
The growing labours of the lengthen'd way;
Th'increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes,
Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!

Alexander Pope

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The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!

Alexander Pope

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Intrepid then, o'er seas and lands he flew:
Europe he saw, and Europe saw him too.

Alexander Pope

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Some who grow dull religious straight commence
And gain in morals what they lose in sense.

Alexander Pope

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For he lives twice who can at once employ,
The present well, and e’en the past enjoy.

Alexander Pope

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Know thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.

Alexander Pope

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The world forgetting by the world forgot.

Alexander Pope

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Brevity is the soul of wit.

Alexander Pope

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