Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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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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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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