Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
ALEXANDER POPETrue wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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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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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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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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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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