Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
ALEXANDER POPEIt 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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