Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
ALEXANDER POPENever find fault with the absent.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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