True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
ALEXANDER POPEI never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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