Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
ALEXANDER POPENever find fault with the absent.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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 vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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The laughers are a majority.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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