Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
ALEXANDER POPEFools rush in where angels fear to tread.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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This long disease, my life.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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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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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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