All nature is but art unknown to thee.
ALEXANDER POPENo one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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This long disease, my life.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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