Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
ALEXANDER POPELulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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