Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
ALEXANDER POPEAct well your part, there all the honour lies.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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