Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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The laughers are a majority.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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This long disease, my life.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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