All nature is but art unknown to thee.
ALEXANDER POPEI never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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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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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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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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