Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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