The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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