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 POPEWhen we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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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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