As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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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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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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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