Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
ALEXANDER POPEGet your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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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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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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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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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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