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.
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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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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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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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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