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.
ALEXANDER POPEWhy did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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