Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
ALEXANDER POPEFor 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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This long disease, my life.
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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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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.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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