As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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