Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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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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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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