What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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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Every professional was once an amateur.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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