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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

Alexander Pope
Toil, Lovers, Ends
Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.42, BookCaps Study Guides

There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

Alexander Pope
Truth, People, Littles
Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1751). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.10

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Alexander Pope
Party, Unhappy, Division
Letter to Edward Blount, 27 August 1714, in George Sherburn (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Alexander Pope' (1956) vol. 1, p. 247

A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

Alexander Pope
Heart, Tongue
Alexander Pope, John Butt (1967). “The Poems of Alexander Pope: The Odyssey of Homer. Books I-XII”

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Alexander Pope
Art, Science, Genius
Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1854). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with a life”, p.5

If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.

Alexander Pope
Lying, Good Friend, Degrees
Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker, Whitwell Elwin, William John Courthope (1871). “The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin”, p.87

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