What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
ALEXANDER POPEAn obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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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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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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