Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
ALEXANDER POPEIn this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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The laughers are a majority.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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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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