To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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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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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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