What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
ALEXANDER POPEGet your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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