Expression is the dress of thought.
ALEXANDER POPETo wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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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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