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Alexander Pope Quotes about Sin

Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

Alexander Pope (1848). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author”, p.136

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1836). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope, esq., to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.136