Beauty draws us with a single hair.
ALEXANDER POPEVice 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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