All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
ALEXANDER POPETrue ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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