Truth needs not flowers of speech.
ALEXANDER POPEIn faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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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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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!
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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