Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
ALEXANDER POPENo 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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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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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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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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This long disease, my life.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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The laughers are a majority.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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