What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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The laughers are a majority.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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