Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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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Every professional was once an amateur.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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The laughers are a majority.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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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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