Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPEMany men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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