Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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