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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Alexander Pope
Expression is the dress of thought.
Alexander Pope
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
Alexander Pope
Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
Alexander Pope
A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
Alexander Pope
Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
Alexander Pope
Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
Alexander Pope
Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
Alexander Pope
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
Alexander Pope
Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
Alexander Pope
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Alexander Pope
What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
Alexander Pope
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
Alexander Pope
Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
Alexander Pope
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
Alexander Pope
Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
Alexander Pope
