Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
ALEXANDER POPETo swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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