Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPECharm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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