True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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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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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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