Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
ALEXANDER POPEThe laughers are a majority.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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