Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
ALEXANDER POPE
It 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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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