The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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