All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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The laughers are a majority.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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