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.
ALEXANDER POPEAct well your part, there all the honour lies.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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