Alexander Pope Quotes
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To buy books only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because made by some famous tailor.
[Books]
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
[Vulgarity]
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
[Error]
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others, is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
[Absurdities]
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To whom can riches give repute, or trust, content, or pleasure, but the good and just?
[Wealth]
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
[Art]
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True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed: welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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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.
[Being]
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True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
[Wit]
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Truth shines the brighter clad in verse.
[Poetry]
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Vice is a monster of such frightful mien as to be hated, needs but to be seen; but seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace.
[Familiarity]
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavor, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so.
[Youth]
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Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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What Cicero says of war may be applied to disputing, - it should always be so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. - But generally, disputants are like sportsmen - their whole delight is in the pursuit; and a disputant no more cares for the truth, than the sportsman for the hare.
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What conscience dictates to be done, or warns me not to do, this teach me more than hell to shun, that more than heaven pursue.
[Conscience]
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What dire offense from am'rous causes springs. What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
[Love]
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What is it to be wise? - 'Tis but to know how little can be known - to see all others' faults and feel our own.
[Wisdom]
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