Source: An Essay on Criticism
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“Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.”
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with a life
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc
Source: 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
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson
“The zeal of fools offends at any time.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. ...
“A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.”
“For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.”
“Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton
“Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes
Source: The Major Works
“Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson