True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
ALEXANDER POPEHe who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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The laughers are a majority.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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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 some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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