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 POPEThe laughers are a majority.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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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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