On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPEAll nature is but art unknown to thee.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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