Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
ALEXANDER POPEAs the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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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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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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