There is a majesty in simplicity.
ALEXANDER POPEWords are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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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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This long disease, my life.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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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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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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.
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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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