Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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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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The laughers are a majority.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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