Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPECharm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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