Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
ALEXANDER POPEStrength of mind is exercise, not rest.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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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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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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Every professional was once an amateur.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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