Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
ALEXANDER POPELearning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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This long disease, my life.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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For 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.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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