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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Alexander Pope
'The most powerful lenses in the world are a man's own eyes when they gaze upon his own identity.'
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
3.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Alexander Pope
4.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
Alexander Pope
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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.
Alexander Pope
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
Alexander Pope
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
Alexander Pope
9.
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
Alexander Pope
10.
See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs,
And mounts exulting on triumphant wings;
Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound,
Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
Alexander Pope
11.
To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
Alexander Pope
12.
Genius creates, and taste preserves.
Alexander Pope
13.
No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
Alexander Pope
14.
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
Alexander Pope
15.
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.
Alexander Pope
16.
Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
Alexander Pope
17.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Alexander Pope
18.
But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
Alexander Pope
19.
Every woman is at heart a rake.
Alexander Pope
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
Alexander Pope
21.
Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are fluttering low:
Square your shoulders, lift your pack
And leave your friends and go.
O never fear, lads, naught's to dread,
Look not to left nor right:
In all the endless road you tread
There's nothing but the night.
Alexander Pope
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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
Alexander Pope
23.
Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit,
For works may have more with than does 'em good,
As bodies perish through excess of blood.
Alexander Pope
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
Alexander Pope
25.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Alexander Pope
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Alexander Pope
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
Alexander Pope
28.
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Alexander Pope
29.
Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
Alexander Pope
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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.
Alexander Pope
31.
O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
Alexander Pope
32.
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
Alexander Pope
33.
Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
Alexander Pope
34.
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
Alexander Pope
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
Alexander Pope
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
Alexander Pope
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed;
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
Alexander Pope
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
Alexander Pope
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Alexander Pope
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Alexander Pope
42.
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
Alexander Pope
43.
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope
44.
A pear-tree planted nigh:
'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show,
And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
Alexander Pope
45.
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
Alexander Pope
46.
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Alexander Pope
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
Alexander Pope
48.
Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
Alexander Pope
49.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
Alexander Pope
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
Alexander Pope
