Never find fault with the absent.
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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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.
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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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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