On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPETrue ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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