Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
ALEXANDER POPEHe best can paint them who shall feel them most.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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