Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
ALEXANDER POPEI never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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This long disease, my life.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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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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It 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.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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