Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
ALEXANDER POPEBlessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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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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The laughers are a majority.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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 people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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