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.
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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This long disease, my life.
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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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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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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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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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