He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPEAs with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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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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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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This long disease, my life.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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