Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
ALEXANDER POPETeach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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