Alexander Pope Quotes About Character
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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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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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies; so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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