The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
ALEXANDER POPEConceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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