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.
ALEXANDER POPEYou purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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The laughers are a majority.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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This long disease, my life.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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