Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
ALEXANDER POPELet fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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