Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
ALEXANDER POPEGreat 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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 then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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 excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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