Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
ALEXANDER POPENever find fault with the absent.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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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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The laughers are a majority.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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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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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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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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