All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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