Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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