O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
ALEXANDER POPEBeauty draws us with a single hair.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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There 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.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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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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