A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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