The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
ALEXANDER POPEAs the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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