Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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