Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
ALEXANDER POPETo be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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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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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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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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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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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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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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