Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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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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