A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
ALEXANDER POPEAll seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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