Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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