Expression is the dress of thought.
ALEXANDER POPEThou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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