In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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