An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
ALEXANDER POPEPhysicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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