Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
ALEXANDER POPETo swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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