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.
ALEXANDER POPEThe laughers are a majority.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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This long disease, my life.
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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