Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
ALEXANDER POPEAll seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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