Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
ALEXANDER POPEA little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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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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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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