Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
ALEXANDER POPEA patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Passions are the gales of life.
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This long disease, my life.
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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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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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