Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
ALEXANDER POPEAn excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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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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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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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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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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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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