Alexander Pope Quotes
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Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
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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.
[Mind]
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
[Intelligence]
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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The feast of reason, and the flow of soul.
[Festivities]
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The flying rumors gathered as they rolled, and all who told it added something new, and all who heard it made enlargement too; in every ear it spreads, on every tongue it grew.
[Rumor]
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The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of wilful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more than another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.
[Ingratitude]
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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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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
[Justice]
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The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
[Knowledge]
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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.
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
[Man]
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
[Passion]
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
[Life]
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
[Censure]
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
[Change]
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