Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
ALEXANDER POPEA youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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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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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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