Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPETrue wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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