Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
ALEXANDER POPEPassions are the gales of life.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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