To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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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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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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