A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
ALEXANDER POPEThou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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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.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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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 laughers are a majority.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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