The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
ALEXANDER POPEVices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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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 with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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