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.
ALEXANDER POPEHe best can paint them who shall feel them most.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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