Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem
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“Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton
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
“Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.”
Source: A Select Collection of Poems: Viz. An Essay on Man; An Essay on Criticism; The Messiah; &c. &c. ... To which are Prefixed, An Account of the Life of the Author
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author
“Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires. On receiving from the Right Honourable the Lady Frances Shirley, a standish and two pens. A fragment of an unpublished satire of Pope intitled One thousand seven hundred and forty. The plan of an epic poem, to have been written in blank verse, and intitled Brutus. Preface to Homer's Iliad. Postscript to the Odyssey
“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”
“Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.”
Source: Essay on Man and Other Poems
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author
“Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope with His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements,3: From the Text of Dr. Warburton with Life of the Author
“Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.”
Source: Life comp. by Owen Ruffhead
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]
Source: An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord Bolingbroke
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with his last corrections, additions and improvements
“Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.”
“The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.”
Source: A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published