Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
ALEXANDER POPEAs with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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 are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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