As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
ALEXANDER POPEAct well your part, there all the honour lies.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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This long disease, my life.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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