Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

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• Alexander Pope:

  Never find fault with the absent.

• Alexander Pope:

  The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

• Alexander Pope:

  Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

• Alexander Pope:

  Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy sh

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  The most positive men are the most credulous.

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  The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

• Alexander Pope:

  Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

• Alexander the Great:

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• Alexander the Great:

  You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath pla