Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
ALEXANDER POPEThere is a majesty in simplicity.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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 serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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This long disease, my life.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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