Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
ALEXANDER POPEPraise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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