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 POPEWords are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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This long disease, my life.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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