Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem
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“Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq
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
“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
“Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.”
Source: The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-comical Poem : in Five Canto's
“Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)
“He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.”
Source: Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author
Source: The prose works of Alexander Pope: The major works, 1725-1744
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Six Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death: Printed Verbatim from the Octavo Edition of Mr. Warburton
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton
“The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.”
“Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.”
Source: Poetical Works, with Life of the Author and Notes
“But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly
“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others, to which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks
“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope
“That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq
“Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe
“Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.”
Source: Essay on Man and Other Poems
“Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
Source: Poetical works
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.”
Source: The Poetical Works of A. Pope, Esq: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author
Source: Poetry and letters-1807
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson