Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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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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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.
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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