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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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For forms <strong>of</strong> government let fools contest;<br />

Whate’er is best administered is best:<br />

‘An Essay on Man’ Epistle 3 (1733) l.303<br />

Oh Happiness! our being’s end and aim!<br />

Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate’er thy name:<br />

That something still which prompts th’ eternal sigh,<br />

For which we bear to live, or dare to die.<br />

‘An Essay on Man’ Epistle 4 (1734) l. 1<br />

A wit’s a feather, and a chief a rod;<br />

An honest man’s the noblest work <strong>of</strong> God.<br />

‘An Essay on Man’ Epistle 4 (1734) l. 247<br />

If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined,<br />

<strong>The</strong> wisest, brightest, meanest <strong>of</strong> mankind:<br />

Or ravished with the whistling <strong>of</strong> a name,<br />

See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame!<br />

‘An Essay on Man’ Epistle 4 (1734) l. 281<br />

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road,<br />

But looks thro’ Nature, up to Nature’s God.<br />

‘An Essay on Man’ Epistle 4 (1734) l. 331<br />

True self-love and social are the same.<br />

‘An Essay on Man’ Epistle 4 (1734) l. 396<br />

All our knowledge is, ourselves to know.<br />

‘An Essay on Man’ Epistle 4 (1734) l. 398<br />

For I, who hold sage Homer’s rule the best,<br />

Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.<br />

‘Imitations <strong>of</strong> Horace’ Horace bk. 2, Satire 2 (1734) l. 159 (‘speed the parting guest’ in Pope’s translation <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>The</strong> Odyssey (1725-6) bk. 15, l. 84)<br />

Our Gen’rals now, retired to their estates,<br />

Hang their old trophies o’er the garden gates,<br />

In life’s cool ev’ning satiate <strong>of</strong> applause.<br />

‘Imitations <strong>of</strong> Horace’ Horace bk. 1, Epistle 1 (1738) l. 7<br />

Not to go back, is somewhat to advance,<br />

And men must walk at least before they dance.<br />

‘Imitations <strong>of</strong> Horace’ Horace bk. 1, Epistle 1 (1738) l. 53<br />

Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;<br />

If not, by any means get wealth and place.<br />

‘Imitations <strong>of</strong> Horace’ Horace bk. 1, Epistle 1 (1738) l. 103<br />

Not to admire, is all the art I know,<br />

To make men happy, and to keep them so.<br />

‘Imitations <strong>of</strong> Horace’ Horace bk. 1, Epistle 6 (1738) l. 1

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