Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
ALEXANDER POPETis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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