The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
ALEXANDER POPEAs the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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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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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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