He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPEMany men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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