O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
ALEXANDER POPEHe who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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