Truth needs not flowers of speech.
ALEXANDER POPETeach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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The laughers are a majority.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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A little learning is a dangerous 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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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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