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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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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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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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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This long disease, my life.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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