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.
ALEXANDER POPEWomen use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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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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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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