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 POPEWe may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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