I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
ALEXANDER POPETo err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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