Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
ALEXANDER POPETis but a part we see, and not a whole.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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