Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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 Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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The laughers are a majority.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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