In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
ALEXANDER POPEHe 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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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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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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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The laughers are a majority.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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This long disease, my life.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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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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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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