Tag: Alexander Pope
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Alexander Pope
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Alexander Pope
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
Alexander Pope
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th’ observer’s sake.
Alexander Pope
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
Alexander Pope
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Alexander Pope
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And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Alexander Pope
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The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Alexander Pope
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Alexander Pope
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander Pope