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.
ALEXANDER POPETo wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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