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.
ALEXANDER POPEThis long disease, my life.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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