True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
ALEXANDER POPEHope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Passions are the gales of life.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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