Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
ALEXANDER POPETis but a part we see, and not a whole.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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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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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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