We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
ALEXANDER POPEIf, 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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!
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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The laughers are a majority.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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