He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
ALEXANDER POPEIn this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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When 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.
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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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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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This long disease, my life.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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