Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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