Alexander Pope

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#madmen #run #saint #worst

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#blunt #counsel #enough #falsehoods #mischief

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#make #more #observations #observer #ourselves

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#decencies #dwell #endeavour #ever #finds

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#nor #piece #see #shall #thinks

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#ever #gentle #joke #loves

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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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. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#ashamed #in other words #other #saying #should

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#always #blest #eternal #human #man

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#business #crowd #curiosity #curious #his