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!
ALEXANDER POPECharm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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