True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
ALEXANDER POPEFools rush in where angels fear to tread.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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