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.
ALEXANDER POPEStrength of mind is exercise, not rest.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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