Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPEIt 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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