Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
ALEXANDER POPEAs with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Women 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.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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This long disease, my life.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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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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