Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
ALEXANDER POPELet fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
ALEXANDER POPEThe Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
ALEXANDER POPEWe may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
ALEXANDER POPEThere is a majesty in simplicity.
ALEXANDER POPEAll seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
ALEXANDER POPEPhysicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
ALEXANDER POPEA patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
ALEXANDER POPEAmusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
ALEXANDER POPEDo good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
ALEXANDER POPEA youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
ALEXANDER POPEYou purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPEFor what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
ALEXANDER POPEBlessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
ALEXANDER POPEAll are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
ALEXANDER POPEThis long disease, my life.
ALEXANDER POPEHe who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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