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!
ALEXANDER POPEHe best can paint them who shall feel them most.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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The laughers are a majority.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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