The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
ALEXANDER POPEThe greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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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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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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