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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.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Wisdom, Faults

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.123

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• What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

  Alexander Pope

  Food, Health, Anxiety

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• Truth needs not flowers of speech.

  Alexander Pope

  Truth, Flower, Needs

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• Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

  Alexander Pope

  Hope, Spring, Men

  An Essay on Man Epistle 1, l. 95 (1733)

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Money, Drinking

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• All other goods by fortune's hand are given,
  A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

  Alexander Pope

  Marriage, Hands, Wife

  "The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope".

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• As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

  Alexander Pope

  People, Bottles, Pouring

  'Miscellanies' (1727) vol. 2 'Thoughts on Various Subjects'

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• Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

  Alexander Pope

  Attitude, Blessed, Oppressed

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• We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

  Alexander Pope

  Money, People, Giving

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.236

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• Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

  Alexander Pope

  Reality, Growth, Finding Yourself

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• Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Winning, Sight, Soul

  'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 5, l. 33

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• Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

  Alexander Pope

  Believe, Watches, Judgment

  Alexander Pope, “An Essay On Criticism”

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• Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  'Imitations of Horace' Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue 1, l. 135

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• Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

  Alexander Pope

  Love, Acceptance, Self

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• An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

  Alexander Pope

  Honesty, Motivation, Lying

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works”, p.393

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• 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.

  Alexander Pope

  Love, Hate, Men

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• In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

  Alexander Pope

  Christian, Kindness, World

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.424

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• Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

  Alexander Pope

  Mean, Simplicity, Ostentation

  Alexander Pope (2002). “Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.105, Routledge

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• Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

  Alexander Pope

  Names, Church, Fame

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1797). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems”, p.261

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• Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

  Alexander Pope

  Sin, Offense, Offence

  Alexander Pope (1848). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author”, p.136

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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

  Self, Literature, Easy

  "Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men". Book by Samuel Arthur Bent, p. 451, 1887.

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• All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, God, Nature

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 267

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• Now hollow fires burn out to black,
  And lights are fluttering low:
  Square your shoulders, lift your pack
  And leave your friends and go.
  O never fear, lads, naught's to dread,
  Look not to left nor right:
  In all the endless road you tread
  There's nothing but the night.

  Alexander Pope

  Fear, Night, Fire

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• There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.

  Alexander Pope

  Beauty, Men, Littles

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.125

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• What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

  Alexander Pope

  Fame, Breaths

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.446

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