He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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