Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
ALEXANDER POPEThe world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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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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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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