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.
ALEXANDER POPEConceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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