On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPEHe best can paint them who shall feel them most.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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For 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.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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