A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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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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