He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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