All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
ALEXANDER POPEIt often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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