Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
ALEXANDER POPETrue wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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The laughers are a majority.
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