Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
ALEXANDER POPEThe people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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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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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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