True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
ALEXANDER POPEWomen 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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