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Alexander Pope Quote - Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Enemy Friendship Lost Ourselves Praise
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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Beautiful Improvement Nature
Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Feeling Hide Mistake Myself Teaching
Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Failure Fools Judgement Men Mindset Pride Strong Vice
The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Divine Government Right Wrong
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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Angry Hate Ourselves Revenge Spiritual
A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Age Fools One Liner Patriot
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Deep Peace War
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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Force Greatness Himself Invention Lying Oneeslf
There is a majesty in simplicity.
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One Liner Simplicity
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Divine Forgiveness Human Let Go One Liner
Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Expression One Liner Thinking

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