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 POPEWords are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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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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