Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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