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.
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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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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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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