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.
ALEXANDER POPEAll nature is but art unknown to thee.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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