What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
ALEXANDER POPEPraise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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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 greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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