O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
ALEXANDER POPELulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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This long disease, my life.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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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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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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