Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. ✨ Alexander Pope (1835). Th…

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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. ✨ Alexander Pope (1835). The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly, p.66
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
Never find fault with the absent.
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use. ✨ Alexander Pope (1797). Moral essays, p.74
A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it. ✨ Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). The work … ▶
From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. ✨ 'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 152.

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