Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
ALEXANDER POPEThe Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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