A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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 swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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