Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPEAs with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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 err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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