The most positive men are the most credulous.
ALEXANDER POPETruth needs not flowers of speech.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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This long disease, my life.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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