Alexander Pope

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(654 votes)  All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

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(556 votes)  Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

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(533 votes)  Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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(517 votes)  Act well your part; there all honor lies.

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(449 votes)  Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

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(423 votes)  Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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(412 votes)  Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

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(374 votes)  We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

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(324 votes)  Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

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(317 votes)  The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

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(315 votes)  For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

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(315 votes)  How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd

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(313 votes)  Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

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(307 votes)  By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

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(304 votes)  We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

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(298 votes)  You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

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(297 votes)  Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

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(296 votes)  Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.

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(296 votes)  On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

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(295 votes)  True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.

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(295 votes)  For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

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(293 votes)  An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.

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(293 votes)  Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.

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(291 votes)  Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

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(291 votes)  A little bit of knowledge

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(290 votes)  Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

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(290 votes)  Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

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(289 votes)  Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

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(288 votes)  Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

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(288 votes)  To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

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(288 votes)  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.

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(285 votes)  One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

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(284 votes)  When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

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(284 votes)  Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.

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(283 votes)  Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all.

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(282 votes)  The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

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(280 votes)  Die and endow a college or a cat.

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(280 votes)  But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

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(278 votes)  Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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(277 votes)  To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

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(275 votes)  Health consists with temperance alone.

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(273 votes)  Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

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(271 votes)  Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

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(269 votes)  Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

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(268 votes)  Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

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(267 votes)  Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

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(265 votes)  A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again.

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(265 votes)  Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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(264 votes)  Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

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(260 votes)  Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.

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