Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPEO peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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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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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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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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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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