Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
ALEXANDER POPEWe may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
-
-
Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
ALEXANDER POPE -
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
ALEXANDER POPE -
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
ALEXANDER POPE -
As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
ALEXANDER POPE -
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
ALEXANDER POPE -
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
ALEXANDER POPE -
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
ALEXANDER POPE -
It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
ALEXANDER POPE -
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
ALEXANDER POPE -
The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
ALEXANDER POPE