O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
ALEXANDER POPEA little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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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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