Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
ALEXANDER POPEIt often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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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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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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