There is a majesty in simplicity.
ALEXANDER POPEThe Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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