The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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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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