All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
ALEXANDER POPEThe most positive men are the most credulous.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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