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Alexander Pope Quote - Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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