The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
ALEXANDER POPEHe who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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The laughers are a majority.
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