For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
ALEXANDER POPEEve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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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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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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