Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
ALEXANDER POPEA youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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This long disease, my life.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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