What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
ALEXANDER POPEA patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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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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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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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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The laughers are a majority.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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