Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
ALEXANDER POPEVices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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