Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
ALEXANDER POPECharm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Get 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.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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