Passions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPETrue wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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