An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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