The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
ALEXANDER POPESleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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