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Alexander Pope Quote - True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.

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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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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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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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