The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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This long disease, my life.
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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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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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Women 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.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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