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Firsts Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.
- Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
- New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,...
- To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold,…
- In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of…
- Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
- Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from…
- Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
- Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
- Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
- Order is heaven's first law.
- Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,…
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