As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
ALEXANDER POPEVice 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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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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