Expression is the dress of thought.
ALEXANDER POPETo wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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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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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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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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Every professional was once an amateur.
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