Alexander Pope Quotes, Common Sense Quotes, Half Quotes

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

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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.

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Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!

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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

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No craving void left aching in the soul.

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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.

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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.

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Every professional was once an amateur.

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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.

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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

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

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Virtue alone is happiness below.

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