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.
ALEXANDER POPEThere is a majesty in simplicity.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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