To err is human; to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPEThe Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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It 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.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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