A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
ALEXANDER POPEMen must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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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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