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Alexander Pope Quote - Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
ALEXANDER POPE

Best Brother God Himself Service
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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Failure Fools Judgement Men Mindset Pride Strong Vice
A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Age Fools One Liner Patriot
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Art Genius Heart Soul Wake Up
We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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God Himself Money People Rich Value
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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Character Failure Goodness Humor Power Trust
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Art Literature Nature One Liner
This long disease, my life.
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Life One Liner Perspective Science
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Knowledge Leaving Word Writing
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.
ALEXANDER POPE

Burn Deserve Hope Myself Poetry Praise
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Charity Faith Generosity Hope Kindness Man World
Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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Growth Lose Performance Reality Yourself
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Character Fame Goodness Life Positive
Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Justice Law Love One Liner Right
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Happiness Thinking
When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Comfortable Employment Growth Live Old Young
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Death Joy Live Pain Yourself
O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Deep Peace War
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Nature Strange Thinking Vice
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Deep Human Life River Wisdom
Never find fault with the absent.
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Absence Mistake One Liner
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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Enemy Friendship Judgement Work Yourself
As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Advice Deep Wisdom
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Deep One Liner Philosophy Wisdom
What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Children Education Learning One Liner Song
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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God Greatness Kind Men Study Wisdom
The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
ALEXANDER POPE

Chance Run Stop Talk Time Wisdom Yourself

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