To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
ALEXANDER POPEMany men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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