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.
ALEXANDER POPEVices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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No 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.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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 people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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