To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
ALEXANDER POPEBlessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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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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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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