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 POPEWomen 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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