He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPESome people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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This long disease, my life.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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