All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
ALEXANDER POPEA youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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The laughers are a majority.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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