Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
ALEXANDER POPEThe vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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