We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
ALEXANDER POPEAll seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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