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.
ALEXANDER POPEA little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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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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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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