Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
ALEXANDER POPETeach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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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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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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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