An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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