The most positive men are the most credulous.
ALEXANDER POPESleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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