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 POPESome people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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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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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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