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.
ALEXANDER POPELove the offender, yet detest the offense.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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This long disease, my life.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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