We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
ALEXANDER POPEIn this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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This long disease, my life.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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