Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
ALEXANDER POPELet fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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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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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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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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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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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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