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.
ALEXANDER POPEGet your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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This long disease, my life.
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