Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
ALEXANDER POPEThe most positive men are the most credulous.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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