He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPETeach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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