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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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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