Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
ALEXANDER POPEThe world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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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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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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