If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
ALEXANDER POPEThere 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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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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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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