Expression is the dress of thought.
ALEXANDER POPEAll are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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The laughers are a majority.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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