How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by w…

Alexander Pope
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be! ✨ Alexander Pope (1835). The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem, p.178
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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys. ✨ Alexander Pope (1836). Th … ▶
Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand. ✨ Alexander Pope, Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount.) (1824). An essay on man: in four epistles to H. St … ▶
Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year. ✨ Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). Poetical Works, p.168
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me. ✨ 'The Universal Prayer' (1738)
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. ✨ Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). Poetical Works, p.284

How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be! ✨ Alexander Pope (1835). The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem, p.178

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