Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
ALEXANDER POPEIf, 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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