Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
ALEXANDER POPEThe Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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This long disease, my life.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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