I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
ALEXANDER POPEDo good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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The laughers are a majority.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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This long disease, my life.
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