Truth needs not flowers of speech.
ALEXANDER POPEOn life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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This long disease, my life.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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