Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
ALEXANDER POPEAs the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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