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.
ALEXANDER POPEThe Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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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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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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This long disease, my life.
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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