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.
ALEXANDER POPETo wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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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 most positive men are the most credulous.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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