Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
ALEXANDER POPEA patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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