Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
ALEXANDER POPEThere 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.
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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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