Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
ALEXANDER POPEFools rush in where angels fear to tread.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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The laughers are a majority.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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