In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
ALEXANDER POPEIf, 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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