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.
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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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