True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
ALEXANDER POPEAct well your part, there all the honour lies.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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