Never find fault with the absent.

Quote by Alexander Pope

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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be...

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be...

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making...

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making...

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast

Hope springs eternal in the human breast

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the...

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the...

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance

Order is heaven's first law.

Order is heaven's first law.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

Honor and shame from no condition rise; act well your part, there all the honor...

Honor and shame from no condition rise; act well your part, there all the honor...

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe...

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe...

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a...

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a...

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than...

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than...

At every word a reputation dies.

At every word a reputation dies.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or...

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or...

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old...

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old...

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.