Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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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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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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