Expression is the dress of thought.
ALEXANDER POPEThe greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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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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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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