I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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This long disease, my life.
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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