Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
ALEXANDER POPEHope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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This long disease, my life.
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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.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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