True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
ALEXANDER POPEThe only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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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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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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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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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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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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