Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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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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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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A little learning is a dangerous 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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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