Truth needs not flowers of speech.
ALEXANDER POPEHe who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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