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.
ALEXANDER POPEPassions are the gales of life.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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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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The laughers are a majority.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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