Alexander Pope
"The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore,Are what ten thousand envy and adore:All, all look up, with reverential Awe,At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the Law:While Truth, Worth, Wisdom, daily they decry-`'Nothing is sacred now but Villainy'- Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I"
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"The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore,Are what ten thousand envy and adore:All, all look up, with reverential Awe,At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the Law:While Truth, Worth, Wisdom, daily they decry-`'Nothing is sacred now but Villainy'- Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I"
Alexander Pope
"To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart"
Alexander Pope
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
Alexander Pope
"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
Alexander Pope
"Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light."
Alexander Pope
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