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Misattributed quotes — Alexander Pope

1688–1744 England

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You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come;
Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.

Misattributed Credited as Epigram: An Empty House (1727)

A god without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature.

Misattributed Isaac Newton: Principia Mathematica (1687)

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

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

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

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Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain,
Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain.
Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise!
Each stamps its image as the other flies!

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Never find fault with the absent.

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The sick in body call for aid: the sick
In mind are covetous of more disease;
And when at worst, they dream themselves quite well.
To know ourselves diseased, is half our cure.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alexander Pope (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.