The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
ALEXANDER POPEAn obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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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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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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This long disease, my life.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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