O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
ALEXANDER POPEIn this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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