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!
ALEXANDER POPEOn life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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