The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes!
Life
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Quotes by 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.
Wisdom
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Wisdom
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Life
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
Love
The most positive men are the most credulous.
Wisdom
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Life
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Wisdom
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Wisdom
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Happiness
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Truth
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
Wisdom
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Education
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Education
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Courage
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
Hope
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Friendship
Health consists with temperance alone.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Life
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Wisdom
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Wisdom
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Wisdom
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Wisdom
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