Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPEWhy did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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