Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPEThis long disease, my life.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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