'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Quote by Alexander Pope

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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a...

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a...

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the...

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the...

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of...

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of...

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than...

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than...

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Charms strike the sight; but merit wins the soul.

Charms strike the sight; but merit wins the soul.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but...

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but...

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as...

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as...

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like...

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like...

Never find fault with the absent.

Never find fault with the absent.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

True, conscious honour is to feel no sin; he's armed without that's innocent within.

True, conscious honour is to feel no sin; he's armed without that's innocent within.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.