Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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The laughers are a majority.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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