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.
ALEXANDER POPEThe most positive men are the most credulous.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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!
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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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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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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 laughers are a majority.
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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