The most positive men are the most credulous.
ALEXANDER POPETo be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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