In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Never find fault with the absent.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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