Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
ALEXANDER POPEBlessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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