The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
ALEXANDER POPETo be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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