Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
ALEXANDER POPEHe 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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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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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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