Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
ALEXANDER POPETis but a part we see, and not a whole.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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The laughers are a majority.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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