Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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