What will a child learn sooner than a song?
ALEXANDER POPEWhat some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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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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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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