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.
ALEXANDER POPEHope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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This long disease, my life.
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