Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
ALEXANDER POPEAct well your part, there all the honour lies.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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