Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
ALEXANDER POPEFor 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Passions are the gales of life.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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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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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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