Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPEThe people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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