This long disease, my life.
ALEXANDER POPECharm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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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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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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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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