Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
ALEXANDER POPEHe 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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