As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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 patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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