Passions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPEVice 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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