Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
ALEXANDER POPEA patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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 seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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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The laughers are a majority.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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