Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
ALEXANDER POPEO peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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