Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
ALEXANDER POPETis but a part we see, and not a whole.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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