Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPEThe world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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This long disease, my life.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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He 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.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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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 is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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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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