Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
ALEXANDER POPEVice 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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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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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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