Passions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPEThe world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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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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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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