To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
ALEXANDER POPETruth needs not flowers of speech.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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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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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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