Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
ALEXANDER POPEThere is a majesty in simplicity.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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