Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
ALEXANDER POPEThe vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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The laughers are a majority.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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This long disease, my life.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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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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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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