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 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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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