Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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