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.
ALEXANDER POPELove the offender, yet detest the offense.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Never find fault with the absent.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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