Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
ALEXANDER POPELet fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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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.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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