Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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