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.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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