He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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