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.
ALEXANDER POPEThe greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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