Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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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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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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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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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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This long disease, my life.
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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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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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